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Last week Ambassador Clarence Gauss (rhymes with boss) sailed on the President Garfield from San Francisco, bound for Chungking. Like every U.S. Ambassador, like the members of the innumerable U.S. missions in Europe and Asia, his task had narrowed to one main aim: to prevent the Axis encirclement...
Ambassador Gauss, who smokes so constantly that he seems naked without a cigar, kept out of the limelight as usual. Unobtrusive, sharp-faced, medium-tall, grey-haired, he has been in the U.S. foreign service for 35 of his 54 years. When he was 19, a State Department clerk at $900 a year, Elihu Root had just become Secretary of State, John Hay's Open Door in China was a reality, and the Russo-Japanese war had made Japan a world power. When young Gauss became deputy consul general at Shanghai in 1907, Teddy Roosevelt was sending...
...years Gauss served in China. Hard-boiled and short-spoken, he was not overpopular with U.S. citizens in Shanghai, where he was consul general-but he got things done. Working with Admiral Yarnell when the Japanese poured into Shanghai, he was known as a man who would not backtrack before the Japanese. When he emerged from his conferences over the administration of the International Settlement, attaches would pass word around that the consul general had won his point: "Gauss is boss...
...TIME'S intention was not to criticize the frequent lower-case spelling of Diesel but to spotlight the fact that the name of the engine had eclipsed the name of the man. Some other scientific words (besides watt and ampere) from the names of great pioneers: ohm, coulomb, gauss, henry, maxwell, gilbert, volt (from Volta), galvanize (from Galvani...
...Moffat, Minister to Canada, will also act as Minister to Luxembourg's refugee Government. Plump Nelson Trusler Johnson, wearied by the strain of his five years of tension and overwork as Ambassador to China, was shifted to the Australian legation, and the Australian Minister, horse-faced Clarence Edward Gauss, transferred to Chungking. Another transfer brought Bert Fish, now Minister to Egypt, to Portugal, at the same rank; while swell-shirted Herbert Claiborne Pell, the Newport bolshevik, moved from the hot spot at Lisbon to one at Budapest, as Minister to Hungary. Edwin Carleton Wilson, at Uruguay and William Dawson...