Word: ex-ambassador
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...those present: 18 cabinet members. Rare gastronomical tributes: chicken, fresh asparagus, white wine, aged French brandy. ∙∙ Aluminum Multimillionaire Paul Mellon, 34, son of the late Andrew W. Mellon, volunteered for Army service to beat draft deferment because of his age, asked assignment to the cavalry. ∙∙ Ex-Ambassador Joe Kennedy's son, Joe Jr., 25, reported for Navy training as a flying cadet at Squantum, Mass, ∙∙ John T. Dorrance Jr., Campbell Soup heir, who has been getting a $20,000-a-month allowance, began getting another $21 as an Army private...
Divorced. Michael John Cudahy, 33, drafted Chicago packing heir, second cousin to ex-Ambassador John Cudahy; by his third wife, Marjorie, six months after their marriage; in Los Angeles...
...desk copies of two orders sent from Germany to Nazi dupes and Nazi agents in the U.S. One order was to spread the story that Germany had no intention of ever moving against a country in the Western Hemisphere (and the President mentioned Adolf Hitler's remarks to ex-Ambassador John Cudahy-last week published in LIFE-as one example). The other order was to spread the story, as soon as Mr. Winant arrived in the U.S., that Britain was all in and ready to sue for peace...
...Washington the ex-Ambassador to France, William C. Bullitt, is advance man with trial-balloon speeches; and Assistant Secretary of State Adolf A. Berle Jr. has long been assigned the problem of the U.S. ultimate peace aims-which he has boiled down to three words, "Peace without empire." And the President is coming more & more to depend on two ex-bankers Under Secretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal, now on a mission to London, and Robert Abercrombie Lovett, ex-banker, now Assistant Secretary...
...Ex-Ambassador Bullitt, speaking in behalf of the United China Relief drive, put the case for Chinese aid in the sharpest terms yet. "We have not yet been attacked by Germany, Italy and Japan for one reason and one reason only-they have not been able to get at us. . . . The Chinese have kept the Japanese so fully occupied that they have hesitated to add a sea war against the British or ourselves to their land war with China. . . . To help China is to help ourselves. They are fighting . . . on what is literally-in a strategic sense-our western front...