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...became Attorney General, in 1913 Lord Chief Justice and a baron, in 1915 president of the Anglo-French Loan Commission to the U.S., the next year a viscount, in 1917 High Commissioner and special envoy at Washington, and an earl...
Hugh Simons Gibson, U. S. Ambassador to Belgium∙ and President Hoover's peripatetic "Envoy at Large," knows what it is to go through a peace conference with the public expecting more than can be achieved. At such times, he knows, Peace is Hell...
Mexicans still speak knowingly of how Comrade Alexandra Kollontay, first Soviet female envoy, met onetime Mexican President Plutarco Elias Calles in Berlin, crossed the Atlantic "on the same boat," remained in Mexico as Minister "until they quarreled" (TIME, Dec. 19, 1927). Last week this scarlet diplomat, wearing a black taffeta gown, drew about her shoulders a soft chinchilla wrap upon which blazed the Soviet Order of the Red Star, stepped into a Royal Coach. The equipage was that of Gustaf V, King of the Swedes. At a merry clip Comrade Kollontay whirled through the streets of Stockholm, alighted...
...conclaves which elected Pius X in 1903, Benedict XV in 1914, Pius XI in 1922); Papal legate to Eucharistic Congresses at London in 1908, at Montreal in 1910 (after which he toured the U. S., was the guest of President Taft); on many occasions a Papal representative, envoy, nuncio, or internuncio (among them: coronation of Tsar Alexander III of Russia in 1881, at Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee); great & good friend of the U. S. (said he: "America is a dollar nation, but it is not dollar-mad? it is the future stronghold of the Church"); of uremic poisoning...
About to be handed back to China, after 32 years of British tenure, is the lease of Weihaiwei (Way-hi-way) - 285 square miles of free port, walled city, fertile farmland. The draft agreement, last week at Nanking by Britain's experienced envoy, Sir Miles Wedderburn was hailed by optimistic Foreign Minister C. T. Wang as "the first step toward the return of all leased territory China now held by foreigners." (Last month Sir Miles rushed by warship from Shanghai to Lady Lampson's bedside in Hongkong, arrived just before she died.) The snug hill-bound harbor...