Word: gratae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...delivered a hot, factladen protest to the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Russian reply did not deny any of the facts, instead announced that "competent authorities," presumably the same Kremlin officials who ordered the kidnap, found Langelle to be engaged in secret intelligence work, and therefore persona non grata. Langelle thus became the eleventh U.S. official to be kicked out of Russia since 1952, but the first to undergo third-degree preliminaries...
Fiery Diva Maria Callas, her flames fairly well banked, rested in Milan before filming some jovial chit-chat for CBS Pundit Ed Murrow's TV talkathon, Small World. Meanwhile, back at her lawyers' office, things were less restful. Already soprano non grata at Milan's La Scala and Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera, litigious Maria tossed a damage suit against another offending management: the Rome Opera House, which sacked her a year ago (TIME, Jan. 20, 1958) after she walked out after the first act of Norma pleading a "lowering of the voice." With a hint that...
...London, had committed a "gross discourtesy" by "subjecting a man of great intellectual eminence to insult at the hands of ignorant officials." The man: U.S. Nobel Prizewinning Chemist Linus Pauling, a colleague of Philosopher Russell in opposition to nuclear bomb tests. The Home Office-which considers that visitor non grata who takes part in meetings against government policy-had refused Pauling permission to stay in England < past Sept. 16, precluding his appearance before a meeting of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. What's more, said Russell, authorities at the airport had accused Pauling of lying when he claimed that...
...against the U.S.'s Spanish neighbors in Florida. Thundered the President: "What must the world think of such conduct and the government of the United States in submitting to it?" He called in his Cabinet and decided to demand Genêt's recall as persona non grata...
...Roosevelt, without channeling it through the State Department as required. Menshikov smilingly promised to look into the matter, did nothing. Last week the State Department let it be known that the U.S.'s final recourse in such a matter might be to declare such a diplomat persona non grata-almost like Citizen...