Word: grata
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government spokesman, had reported to two British embassy first secretaries-John G. Gove and James B. Flux. The diplomats were given 72 hours to leave the country. (The British Foreign Office promptly declared that two officials of parallel status in Egypt's London embassy were persona non grata...
...Chapin, 55, to be Ambassador to Iran. Careerman Chapin, a wealthy, dewlapped sportsman (golf, sailing) and an Annapolis graduate, has knocked around the world for 30 years in the Foreign Service. In 1949, as U.S. Minister to Communist Hungary, he was accused of conspiring with Cardinal Mindszenty, declared non grata and thrown out of the country (Chapin dismissed the charges as "pure fantasy...
...swindles, treacheries, beautiful women and rich living. He was a crook-who called himself an international financier-and he got away with it because highly placed people were impressed by his spending and his line. After he had been repeatedly exposed in court for shady dealings and declared non grata in France, he was, on the eve of his wedding in 1941, a guest at the White House of President Franklin Roosevelt...
...strike? Said Secretary of State John Foster Dulles in Washington last week: "There is at least an interesting coincidence in the fact that the strikes have occurred principally in an area to which the Guatemalan government recently sent three consuls who have subsequently been declared persona non grata by the government of Honduras because of their activities...
Soon afterward, the ambassador returned to Cairo to voice his protest in person to Foreign Minister Mahmoud Fawzi. Fawzi cut him short by pointing out that diplomatic protocol permits a non grata ambassador to see a Foreign Minister for only one reason-to say goodbye. Spluttering Tugay thereupon gave a farewell banquet to which not one Egyptian was invited. "You will not see me again in this dirty place," he told his guests...