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Persona Non. The pale, tall old Secretary and the President made one further move connected with ships and the Axis. Back to Italy, ordered to leave the U.S. immediately, must go Admiral Alberto Lais, 58, persona non grata to the U.S. for his part in ordering Italian ships sabotaged. Portly, balding Admiral Lais (rhymes with Thais), a prominent society man whose accent is not too heavy, whose risqué stories not too slight, is an affable, easygoing gentleman who twirls his mustache and pops his eyes at the sight of an attractive ankle. Last week...
Exit Dietrich. Two days later Minister of Foreign Affairs Eduardo Hay informed Hitler's slick director of Nazi intrigue in Mexico and Latin America, Arthur Dietrich, that he was no longer persona grata in Mexico, that his activities, pursued with arrogant disregard for the laws and privileges of his host country, were "prejudicial to Mexican interests." An investigation of Dietrich had revealed that his office served as a relay point for instructions from Berlin to Nazi agents in the U. S., as well as elsewhere in the Americas, including plenty of boring from within in Mexico. Awaiting further instructions...
...Suritz Non Grata. Nonfiction, but in some spots very tantalizing melodrama, was the affaire Suritz, which did nothing to detract from Allied-Russian tension. Since 1919 bulging, bearded Jacob Suritz has been No. 1 Soviet diplomat, with a brilliant record in Afghanistan, Turkey, Germany and League of Nations wrangles. He was for years the only Jew in Germany permitted to keep Aryan housemaids -by personal dispensation of the Führer. Ambassador Suritz was not "purged" when his intimate friend Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff fell from Joseph Stalin's favor, but few Bolsheviks close to a fallen bigwig survive...
Soviet Premier Molotov promptly sent instructions which caused Ambassador Suritz, now persona non grata in France, to swing aboard the Simplon Express last week. At that, Ambassador Suritz could not have been wholly sorry to leave Paris. Since the war with Finland his Government has been a good deal less than popular in France. On a recent evening French Playwright René Fauchois saw the Ambassador rolling by in his bulletproof limousine, hollered: "Vive la Finlande!" 'Bulletproof notwithstanding, the Ambassador dived for the car's floor...
...Lothrop Stoddard, Brookline, Mass. political lecturer and author, whose racial theories (he used to frighten the U. S. with the yellow peril) make him persona grata to Nazis, went recently to Germany as correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Last week glib Dr. Stoddard got an interview with Minister for Propaganda and Public Enlightenment Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels. Addressing the little doctor as a "master psychologist," Interviewer Stoddard asked how come the Germany of 1940, unlike that of 1914, has no hurrah spirit...