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...Envoy Extraordinary & Minister Plenipotentiary to Bangkok is keen, spare, mild-mannered Willys Ruggles Peck. His joints jut out like scaffolding joists. His Chinese-yellow skin is stretched tight over a shrunken skull. Peck is one of the most tactful, tightlipped, affable men in the State Department, with an Oriental knack for getting what he wants while he lets you think you are walking all over him. If anybody-can hold Thailand safe for democracy, Peck...
...that Vichy would defend the French Empire "alone, wherever possible." On the other hand, Vichy announced that Germany might get "port facilities and transport privileges" within the scope of the collaboration promised the Nazis at Montoire-sur-le-Loir last year (and never publicly defined). Vichy also allowed its envoy to Paris, Fernand de Brinon, to make the flat statement that Vichy was following Germany's conception of the coming world order rather than that of Great Britain...
Already set up in the capital at Kaunas is a government of five Lith puppets headed by husky, swart Kazys Skirpa, 46, Lithuania's former envoy to Berlin...
...Adviser after eight ill-starred years as Britain's potent Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, is a great great great grandson of Arthur Vansittart (1691-1760), one of whose other grandsons was Nicholas Vansittart (1766-1851), M.P. for 26 years and at various times Special Envoy to Denmark, Secretary to the Treasury, Chancellor of the Exchequer. In 1810 Britain-in the midst of war with Napoleon-was off the gold standard, the price of bullion was high in terms of Bank of England notes, foreign exchange was difficult, inflation loomed. A Parliamentary Bullion Committee met, wanted...
...stolid statesmen of Reykjavik, measured and dignified in all things, erected their new order with utmost constitutional correctness. Until a republic should be established, able, revered Svein Bjornsson, Icelandic envoy to Copenhagen, was named regent. There was no need to create a new diplomatic service: Iceland had already planted a set of stalwart Vikings in world capitals after the Nazis captured Denmark last year. As for protocol, Premier Hermann Jonasson had always got along with a staff of a secretary and a doorkeeper, and still could...