Word: envoys
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...Desta Demtu, who was still in Ethiopia last week commanding the remnants of a native army. Few-hours later an Italian-led column of Ethiopian troops swooped down and routed the Ethiopian stragglers of Ras Desta Demtu. According to the Italian official version, Haile Selassie's designated Coronation envoy was implicated in the attempt to assassinate Italy's Viceroy in Addis Ababa by means of hand grenades (TIME, March 1). In short order Ras Desta Demtu was executed, and convalescent Viceroy Graziani radioed to Rome: "DUCE YOUR ORDERS HAVE BEEN CARRIED OUT AS ALWAYS...
...conflicting official viewpoints present a definite problem. From Washington circles, the President's firm intention to remain neutral in any European embroilment has up to yesterday remained unquestioned. As an official envoy from the President, Ambassador Bullitt has in part, at least, shattered this stand. Until the position held by the Administration is restated or qualified, the foreign policy must remain dubious...
...three subordinates on whom President Roosevelt depends to win his Senate victories are Majority Leader Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas, the bull-voiced, heavy-fisted field commander; Pat Harrison of Mississippi, the shrewd committee and cloakroom horsetrader; and James F. Byrnes of South Carolina, the suave personal envoy. All three were present one noon last week when Senator Robinson summoned newsmen to his office to discuss the President's breathtaking proposal for rejuvenating the Judiciary (TIME, Feb. 15). Talk skimmed over various features of the plan. "Speaking solely for Joe Robinson." the 64-year-old Majority Leader, who hopes...
...still married to the daughter of Shefqet Bey Elbasani, a great landowner. This is a libel of the coarsest type. The King was once engaged to the lady in question, but the engagement was ended by mutual consent. She after wards married Djemil Bey Dino, the present Envoy of Albania to Bulgaria, and is happily living with her husband at the Albanian Legation in Sofia. For those people who are willing to learn something, and the breed is not yet quite extinct, I will add that bigamy is in Albanian law a felony punishable by penal servitude...
...presented to the King bows. Neither a lady nor a gentleman seizes the King's hand to shake it. Last week the greatest Court sensation since Soviet Foreign Minister Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff was impudent about King Edward VIII* was created by Adolf Hitler's personal and official envoy to the Court of St. James, Joachim von Ribbentrop, the German Ambassador...