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Goateed, greying, ace Soviet diplomat Jacob Surits has a habit of popping up in key spots. He was at Geneva in 1939 when the League of Nations prepared to expel Russia for the war with Finland. As Soviet Ambassador to France in 1940, Surits was declared persona non grata for cabling home harsh criticism of "Anglo-French warmongers." Last week the U.S.S.R. had named him their first Ambassador to Brazil, where the Communists had rolled up an unexpected 600,000-odd votes in the recent elections...
...also common knowledge that American soldiers are persona non grata in the homes of decent girls in many of the liberated countries because of their attitude that any foreign girl is automatically a prostitute. Pick up almost any daily copy of Stars & Stripes and you will find letters to the editor complaining that the girls over here are closing their doors to our troops. This offensive attitude among our troops is not at all general, but the percentage is large enough to have given our Army a pretty black name, and we too are considered an army of rapists...
Dirt and Starvation. Like her three sisters (one, Eleanor, used to be Warden of Vassar), tall, vigorous Khaki Dodge is lively, enterprising, hard to discourage. Arriving in Greece late last autumn to be chief medical officer for the headquarters district of the Military Government, she found herself persona non grata. The British did not like skirts on this job. So she set off for ruined Sperkheios Valley. There she found that Captain Robert Mayers of the U.S. Army had already set up three hospitals while the Germans were still theoretically in possession (TIME, Jan. 29). But the people...
...Announced the resignation of lean, immaculate William Phillips, onetime Ambassador to Italy, as his personal representative in India. Ambassador Phillips had been in the U.S. since last fall, when he returned, indignant, after British Foreign Office hints that he was persona non grata because of his free-India position...
...shaky Finnish Government of Premier Urko Castren, in crisis ever since the signing of the armistice with Russia last September, staggered out of office. In its place moved a new cabinet headed by Dr. Juho Kusti Paasikivi, 74. Dr. Paasikivi was persona grata in Moscow. He had helped negotiate three treaties that ended Finland's three wars with Russia-in 1920, 1940 and 1944. The national crisis was deferred, not ended...