Word: envoys
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...ENVOY REPORTS TO HULL...
...windows throughout the Lisbon harbor district. Then followed a solemn Te Deum in the Lisbon Cathedral with the Knights of Malta in their scarlet tunics, Army and Navy officials in dress uniform, city fathers in robes of office, and the gold-braided Diplomatic Corps carefully arranged to keep belligerent envoys apart. President General Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona shared prominence in the Cathedral with General Francisco Jose Pinto, special envoy from onetime colony Brazil; Nicolas Franco, Spanish Ambassador and brother of El Caudillo, and British Ambassador Sir Walford Harmood Montague Selby. To cheering mobs outside His Eminence Emmanuel Cardinal Gonc...
Said Adolf Hitler's Boston envoy, over the signature of Kurt Bohme: "This Con sulate has read the editorial . . in which the head of a nation, with whom the United States of America entertains dip lomatic relations, is insulted in such un civilized expressions, that this Consulate in the future must refuse to give your paper any information in whatever matter...
There was the usual British hitch. Forgetting the Oriental sensitivity of Joseph Stalin, forgetting that the British trade mission to Moscow had failed last August largely because it was composed of underlings (while Germany sent Ribbentrop in person), the Government stupidly gave Sir Stafford the minor rank of Special Envoy...
...Louis Rollin from the Ministry of Commerce. As new Minister of Commerce he chose Leon Barety, an exponent of closer relations with Italy. To the key post of permanent Secretary General of Foreign Affairs, since 1933 occupied by Alexis Leger ("greatest living diplomat"), Premier Reynaud appointed Frangois Charles-Roux, envoy to the Vatican, an expert on Papal foreign policy...