Word: ex-ambassador
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...TIME reported the peace offensive (TIME, July 8, 1940), suggested Madrid as the most likely scene of negotiations (which may also have been true). Ex-Ambassador Davies identified the negotiators only as "an American businessman and industrialist, who had spent many years in Europe, and a European businessman who had been very successful...
...Hague, Warsaw, Tokyo, Constantinople, Brussels, Bern, Geneva, Sydney and Washington. He was chief of the Division of European Affairs from 1937 to 1940, when he replaced James H. R. Cromwell in Ottawa. He was a descendant of first Chief Justice John Jay, married the elder daughter of ex-Ambassador to Tokyo Joseph C. Grew...
...know, yet the cumulative effect of its pages was to make the efforts of U.S. diplomacy seem much more real and wise in retrospect than they had often seemed in prospect. Whoever had been caught napping on December 7, 1941, it was not Cordell Hull or ex-Ambassador Joseph C. Grew. Said the measured New York Times: "It is hard to see how our government could have done more, in honor, than it did to stave off the worldwide...
...decide between democracy and Argentine-backed reactionaries, between neutrality and a pro-United Nations course. Overwhelmingly they chose democracy and the United Nations. As their new President they elected the candidate of President Alfredo Baldomir's Colorado Party, 61-year-old Lawyer Juan José de Amezaga, ex-Ambassador and League of Nations delegate. As Vice President: hemisphere-minded Foreign Minister Alberto Guani...
Died. Clara Cook Kellogg, 80, widow of ex-Secretary of State, ex-Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Frank Billings Kellogg; in St. Paul. A popular hostess in Washington and London, she was a tactful, patient woman whose grace often counteracted her husband's impulsive conversation. Kellogg once wrote that Coolidge said he had made him Ambassador as much because of Mrs. Kellogg as Kellogg himself...