Word: envoys
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...next month, paying back the visit to India late last year of a Chinese "goodwill mission" (whose calculated effect, Nehru now evidently perceives, was to stir India's Communist Party into an impressive showing at the polls). Heading the list is Nehru's sister, Madame Pandit, recently envoy to Washington, and before that envoy to Moscow (where, though she arrived with a rosy view of the Russians, she became miffed because Stalin never received her). The Chinese Communists now regard her as so pro-American that, were she not Nehru's sister, they would have vetoed...
...surprised if Stalin's trouble is the lack of feminine influence over him. I think a woman might be able to accomplish far more with him than the Western statesmen have been able to do. I wish I could be Spanish Ambassador in Moscow . . . If I were Spanish envoy in the United States, I would go fishing with President Truman...
Another Japanese admiral turned up in the news last week, and offered more spectacular proof of changing times. Kichisaburo Nomura, Japan's special "peace envoy" in Washington on Pearl Harbor Day, showed up at the U.S. naval base at Yokosuka to attend a ceremony aboard the battleship Wisconsin. He came to see his old friend, Vice Admiral Robert P. Briscoe, take over command of the U.S. Seventh Fleet from Vice Admiral Harold M. Martin. Said Nomura, who is still on the purge list: "I have always admired the American Navy. It was wonderful talking to old friends about...
Admiral Raymond A. Spruance (ret), hero of the Battles of Midway and the Philippine Sea, and longtime commander of the Fifth Fleet, was nominated by the White House for another Pacific assignment: Ambassador to the Philippines, to replace Envoy Myron M. Cowen...
...Envoy to the Vatican