Word: envoys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Saburo Kurusu, 68, onetime Japanese "peace" envoy to the U.S. (1941) who, with Ambassador Kichisaburo Nomura, was "negotiating with Secretary of State Cordell Hull when Japan struck Pearl Harbor; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Tokyo. Three weeks before war came, he arrived in Washington to settle growing U.S.-Japanese differences. On Pearl Harbor day, Nomura handed his country's last insolent note to Secretary Hull, waited silently as Hull replied: "I have never seen a document . . . more crowded with infamous falsehoods and distortions . . ." Shipped home, Kurusu contributed little to Japan's war effort, was never indicted...
...Arthur H. Dean, 55, Wall Street attorney and former law partner of Secretary of State Dulles, formally resigned as special U.S. envoy to the Korean peace talks at Panmunjom...
...dozen cocktail parties and receptions a week, seldom takes notes but remembers what she sees or hears-and prints it on the theory that liveliness is more important than documented facts. "Rumors persist, though it seems improbable." she wrote recently, "that George Jessel will be the next envoy to Israel." On occasion, the rumors backfire. Once she made the mistake of crossing pens with Rival Columnist Austine ("Bootsie") Hearst of the Times-Herald, erroneously reported that Austine, six months after the birth of one child, was expecting another. Austine retaliated with her own equally erroneous item: childless Evie Gordon...
...foreign newspapermen, the Shah, after patting the bureaucrats' heads, tried to disengage himself. He looked tired, and as he made his way down the reception line past teary-eyed officials, his own eyes filled too. He clasped Ambassador Henderson's hand heartily; he gave Soviet Envoy Anatoly Lavrentiev a perfunctory handclasp. Then he was off to the palace in a limousine, under hastily erected triumphal arches and past cheering crowds...
...Democratic city bosses ("I'm for anything Roosevelt is for"). When National Committee Chairman Jim Farley resigned in 1940 in protest against the third term, Ed Flynn reluctantly took over for almost three years, was rewarded with trips to Yalta, Moscow and the Vatican as a wartime presidential envoy. In 1947 he wrote a candid analysis of his political methods, You're the Boss, in which he declared: "The only way to win elections year after year is to know what the voters want and give it to them...