Word: envoys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chinese Red envoy barked on, the U.S.'s Austin sat, large and unhappy in a rumpled brown suit, wearing his translation phones like a crown of thorns. Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb listened with the urbane equanimity a Foreign Office man must pull on along with his drawers and socks while dressing each morning. Secretary General Trygve Lie, a ponderous, uncomfortable figure in blue, his hand plunged deep inside his coat, seemed a Falstaff, cast, under protest, as Napoleon. Yugoslavia's Ales Bebler, presiding, wore a sleepy, slit-eyed look of boredom. Nationalist China...
When American Airlines Flight 157 wheeled up to the customs shed at Mexico City's airport one day last week, a mariachi band struck up Guadalajara. After a suitably dramatic pause, smiling Sloan Simpson O'Dwyer, wife of the 41st U.S. envoy to Mexico, appeared in the plane's doorway, slim in a dark suit and rust-colored hat. Ambassador William O'Dwyer followed her into the morning sunshine...
...seven-man delegation, headed by Finance Minister Tsepon Shakabpa, made the arduous trip to New Delhi from Lhasa, the remote, lamasery-studded capital of Tibet. They waited five months for the arrival of General Yuan Chung-hsien, the new Chinese Communist Ambassador to India. When he arrived, the Red envoy suggested the Tibetans go on to Peking. It was so arranged. The delegation, like Nehru, had its dreams; Tibetan Minister Shakabpa scornfully brushed off talk of an impending attack on his country: "How can there by any invasion when both Chinese and Tibetans are hoping to have a peaceful settlement...
...Danish envoy is expected to arrive at Harvard shortly after seen. His first appearance will be at the opening of the Houghton Library exhibit commemorating the death of the Danish writer, Hans Christian Anderson...
Harvard & Hunting Dogs. In 1904, after Rhee had been behind bars for seven years, the Russo-Japanese War began and in the confusion which gripped Korea a nationalist group temporarily seized control of the Korean government. Rhee was released from prison, headed for the U.S. as a special envoy of the new government. He tried to persuade President Theodore Roosevelt that Korea should not be handed over to Japan in the Russo-Japanese peace conference which Roosevelt had arranged. Roosevelt, Rhee remembers, "received me cordially" at Oyster Bay; but Rhee's request to attend the peace conference was refused...