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...getting three square meals a day." He knows that three square meals a day are not possible for most Filipino wage earners, who average $2.46 a day for unskilled labor, $3.80 for skilled. When Manila capitalists recently complained of Father Hogan to Apostolic Delegate Egidio Vagnozzi, the Vatican envoy firmly replied: 'Father Hogan is preaching the doctrine of the church...
...chosen envoy was William Pitt Amherst, Earl of Arakan and nephew of famed soldier of the King, Lord Jeffrey Amherst. In July 1816, William Amherst reached the North China coast. He was most hopeful, as his secretary later recorded, that "the eclat of an embassy from the Crown of England" would persuade "Oriental barbarism" to grant commercial privileges. But the high & mighty mandarins who escorted him ashore and inland to Peking soon demolished his hope...
...Expert Envoy. From Ottawa, Steinhardt traveled from one end of Canada to the other. When Canadian and U.S. troops finished Exercise Sweetbriar on the rim of the Arctic two months ago, he was on hand in bitter weather to watch the windup. He made friends officiating at such functions as the Stampede in Calgary and the dog derby in Ottawa...
Cops & Robbers. The U.S. stood squarely behind the committee. Its O.A.S. envoy, veteran Careerman Paul C. Daniels, had vigorously put across the State Department's view that it was high time to end the wearisome game of cops & robbers in the Caribbean. The U.S., busy across the globe, was worried lest someone,' some day, might take advantage of a Caribbean quarrel, slip inside the hemisphere's back door, and use a l»cal spat in the American family to sow the seeds of Communism or fascism...
Usually at banquets, he talked earnestly with his neighbor and apparent close friend, bald, pince-nezed Lavrenty Beria, boss of the Soviet police. Obese, agate-eyed, sallow and waxy-faced, Malenkov exuded a vague menace. "If I knew I had to be tortured," said a former Western envoy to Moscow last week, "and if I were picking people from the Politburo to do the torturing, the last one I would pick would be Malenkov...