Word: envoys
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...marks, the bomb-battered, 4½-story mansion where Ambassador Walter Hines Page worked himself to death trying to get the U.S. into World War I. At No. I Grosvenor Square, housed in a massive, brick-faced concrete & steel structure, are the headquarters of Lewis Williams Douglas, 46th U.S. envoy* to the Court of St. James...
Dowagers & Movie Stars. The change was not immediately apparent, especially last week, the week of Princess Elizabeth's wedding. Like every U.S. envoy, Lew Douglas had traditional diplomatic rites to perform. He went to a reception at Buckingham Palace, to a dinner with the dowager Marchioness of Reading, and to a St. James's Palace reception to see Princess Elizabeth's wedding gifts...
...clock the Communists had lost the battle. An envoy came from party headquarters and ordered the demonstrators to evacuate. The ringleaders retired immediately; the police continued to scuffle with laggards, but by 10 France's worst riot since the war was over...
...month ago, concerned over reports from Greece, Secretary of State George Marshall secretly sent a special envoy to make an appraisal. The man he sent was Major General Stephen Chamberlin, the War Department's Director of Intelligence. Last week, General Chamberlin was back. His report, in a nutshell: the U.S. experiment in Greece-the first application of the Truman Doctrine-is going very badly...
Said Tran Nocg Danh, Viet Nam's unrecognized envoy to Paris: "If he negotiates with the French without the consent of his Government, he will be tried for treason...