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...francs a day. Generally speaking, the demarcation line would be opened for goods, cash, securities, and for people who wished to attend the sickness or burial of near relatives. Postcard correspondence would be permitted between the Zones. Meanwhile discussions continued between Admiral Darlan and Nazi Envoy Otto Abetz...
...Envoy. The man who made the Greenland deal possible was Henrik de Kauffmann, 52. When the Nazis seized Denmark last year, Minister de Kauffmann sat tight in the modest little Danish Legation on Washington's Massachusetts Avenue. Slight, dapper, greying and grave-faced, he let his staff know that he intended to represent his country's interests, regardless of Nazi-inspired orders from Copenhagen or Berlin. He was ordered to cooperate with the German charge d'affaires. He did not. When the U.S. seized 39 Danish ships, he did not protest, arranged their transfer...
...long-range hope was the New World. Passage of the Lend-Lease Bill would make a great difference (see p. 26). To arrange ways & means for lending and leasing ships, Winston Churchill last week named Sir Arthur Salter to go at once to Washington. This envoy was peculiarly fitted to the emergency job: he is Parliamentary Secretary to the Shipping Ministry, during World War I was Chairman of the Allied Maritime Transport Executive; has often visited the U. S. and last year married an American and a Washingtonian, Mrs. Ethel Bagg...
...tables and chairs, and an avalanche of burst-open trunks and suitcases. Several Turks on the car were badly injured. Inside the now fiercely burning Pera Palace screaming chaos reigned. Cables flashed all over the world that a bomb attack had been made upon His Britannic Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Bulgaria, George William Rendel...
...personal envoy without title or status the President sent to London in January...