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Franklin Roosevelt, master of almost a thousand press conferences, had the air of an indulgent uncle introducing a beautiful niece. Madame Chiang, he said, was a "special envoy very different from most"; he asked newsmen to confine their questions to the "non-catch type...
...attempt to understand the East, India's leading political figures (excluding those in jail), industrial tycoons and Europeans met at Delhi within a stone's throw of the Maharaja's palace now occupied by William Phillips, the Boston Brahman who is President Roosevelt's personal envoy to India.* Chakravarthi Rajagopalachariar, who broke with Gandhi over the civil-disobedience issue, spoke eloquently of Gandhi's leadership, kindliness, love of freedom. Even the two Chambers of Princes and most Moslem groups (with the exception of loudmouthed Mohammed Ali Jinnah's Moslem League) joined...
Joseph C. Grew '02, President of the Harvard Alumni Association and former Ambassador to Japan, will receive the Howland Memorial Prize April 14 and will also deliver a public lecture in accepting the award, Yale University announced yesterday. Envoy to Japan from 1932 up to the outbreak of war, Grew has only been in the country since the early part of last fall...
Long View. The appointment of Mussolini's son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano, as Italian envoy to the Holy See (TIME, Feb. 15) placed him in Vatican circles where he could mingle with envoys of nations at war with Italy. If Italy chooses to bid for peace, Ciano may have a chance to counteract the disgrace of his removal from Mussolini's Foreign Office and, capitalize on his many contacts with Britons and Americans...
Edda's Boy. Ciano, who has one of the largest vanities in Europe, was eased into a seat on the Fascist Grand Council and then appointed Ambassador to the Vatican. As a Council member he saved face in the Party. As Vatican envoy he kept some of his social prestige (and was in a position to meet diplomatic representatives of enemy countries). He needed these cushions for his ego because the "change of guard" removed him from his position as heir apparent to the Italian dictatorship, and from his easy access to the public trough. Both the Italian people...