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...secretly instructed its delegates to act "in accordance with the principles which Argentina has always upheld in its international policies." But Argentina moved closer toward collaboration by "recalling" her Ambassador from Berlin, and announced that Germany had recalled Ambassador Baron Edmund von Thermann,* whose persona has long been non grata with Argentina's pro-Ally Chamber of Deputies...
Equally satisfied are Army & Navy-not merely because Vultee is in but above all because Rube Fleet is out. Although Fleet's production record surprised them and his whopper planes are the champs of their class, he has long been persona non grata in Washington. Too often his sharp tongue has raked the Administration and accused it of bungling the defense program. Too often, too, have Government buyers left Rube Fleet's San Diego office feeling his prices were more than a little high...
...publicly deriding Panama as "under the Yankee boot," the Spanish Minister in Panama City, Jose Maria Cavero y Giocorroetea, Duke of Bailén, himself was booted last week. An executive order declared him persona non grata, asked his recall...
...widely interpreted as an anti-Nazi gesture. It was also commonly said that the Marshal had ousted the only French emissary with whom the Nazis would deal. But in Vice Premier Admiral Jean Frangois Darlan the old Marshal picked a successor to Laval who has made himself superbly persona grata at Berchtesgaden and who is, in addition, much less unpopular in France than the scheming M. Laval...
...Approved a War Department press release defending Major William Bentley of Richmond, Va., who was named by Italy as persona non grata as Assistant Military Attache in the Rome Embassy...