Word: gratae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vacationing in London last week with his wife and their 18-month-old son, Baker got word that the Soviet Foreign Ministry had declared him persona non grata on grounds that he "systematically violated the norms of behavior for diplomatic representatives." Translation: John Baker was persona too grata to the young Russians, who had been raised on a stiff diet of hate-America propaganda...
...recognize players fighting for positions on each team. Items: ¶ Seven-term Negro Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, 49, already under indictment for income tax evasion (TIME, May 19), flipped into trouble on another front. Under prodding by Tammany Chieftain Carmine De Sapio, Harlem political leaders declared Powell Democrat non grata for his support of the Eisenhower-Nixon ticket two years ago, looked around for another candidate. Pastor Powell (Abyssinian Baptist Church) churned into an oratorical frenzy. Cried he: "I am being purged because obviously I am a Negro and a Negro should stay on the plantation." Powell called New Yorker...
...married to a Catholic, and whose six children are being raised as Catholics) used an analogy from international diplomacy to explain Princeton's stand: "The university has withdrawn only the recognition of an individual. In the international field, this compares with a government declaring an individual persona non grata, but continuing to recognize the embassy...
...Telegraph arrived and reported these doings, Colvin was hauled into court for contempt. And then, when London Lawyer Christopher Shawcross, a distinguished Queen's counsel and brother of Laborite ex-Attorney General Sir Hartley Shawcross, flew in to defend Reporter Colvin, the Interior Minister declared him persona non grata for "attacking the Ghana government in court" and refused to let him back into the country to finish his case...
Washington, denouncing the whole fantastic plot as a "fabrication," promptly retaliated. It expelled the Syrian ambassador, Dr. Farid Zeineddine, a garrulous and haughty diplomat who has never been a State Department favorite anyway. It was the first time the U.S. has declared a chief of mission persona non grata since Robert Lansing handed the Austro-Hungarian ambassador his walking papers in 1915. The State Department also announced that U.S. Ambassador to Syria James Moose (one of only three U.S. ambassadors in the Arab world who can speak the language) would not return to his Damascus post...