Word: envoys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Middle East last week seemed just as eager to sell itself to Wendell Willkie as he was to promote the United Nations' cause. As an unimperial envoy, he was received with great enthusiasm everywhere, and he incidentally brought into view many Middle Eastern figures who are now important...
China on India. Alarmed last week were the Chinese, who reported new Japanese troop concentrations near the Burma-India border. Lauchlin Currie, President Roosevelt's envoy to China, told Washington that the Chungking Government is pressing for Indian mediation by the President. Repeatedly since the arrest of Gandhi and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Gandhi's right-hand man and China's great & good friend, the Chungking press has "hoped" for mediation. Dr. T. F. Tsiang, director of political affairs, stated the Chinese position when he said that the conflict is not a British domestic question, but a moral...
...guarded child in Paris." Away from Barbara, Georges made his living peddling heroin, stealing old masters, putting cotton in public telephones to prevent coins from being returned. Disguised as a Hindu, Georges once robbed a Swiss bank and a French newspaper, ran the story as reported by its "special envoy" at Basle...
WILLKIE IS ROOSEVELT'S ENVOY...
Joseph Stalin stands behind a paper-littered work table. He is smoking a pipe and wears the rough clothes of a peasant soldier. Enter Prime Minister Winston Churchill, followed by Special U.S. Envoy William Christian Bullitt. Churchill is wearing a seagoing cap and a short pea jacket; he is puffing on a long cigar. Bullitt is wearing grey striped trousers and cutaway coat with a dark red carnation in the buttonhole...