Word: envoys
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...Appointed James Grover McDonald, 61, a member of the Anglo-American Commission of Inquiry on Palestine in 1946, to be the first U.S. diplomatic envoy to Israel. His title, pending full U.S. recognition of Israel: Special Representative...
Myron C. Taylor, the President's august envoy to the Vatican, also had child trouble. Undaunted by a court defeat last year, a Mrs. Eunice Walterman of Chicago re-entered her claim that she was his illegitimate daughter, this time sued for a round $2 million...
Veblen approached social criticism as if he were some expert envoy-extraordinary sent from a distant planet to report on human behavior. Under this bland mask of anthropological detachment he hid his passionate conviction that man, in being forced to labor in the sweat of his brow, was not paying a divine penalty for sin but simply giving vent to his most powerful natural passion : "the instinct of workmanship...
While presenting his credentials to President Truman at the White House, General Kaiser repeated the 17th Century aphorism* about an ambassador being an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country, added that he preferred to believe that an envoy was dispatched to speak the truth. Replied the President: "A great pleasure...
...about. Looking back, Old Soldier Marshall might wonder himself. It was a kaleidoscopic story of surprise, improvisation and counterattack. When he took over as Secretary of State, George Marshall, despite his attendance at wartime conferences, was no skilled diplomat. He had been sent to China as a special presidential envoy to bring peace between Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government and the Chinese Communists. He failed in his mission. He came back denouncing the Chinese Communists as "irreconcilable," the Nationalists as "reactionary...