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...London last week for a "private visit" went Adolf Hitler's financial magician, clammy-handed, high-colored Dr. Hjalmar Schacht. President of the Reichsbank. Dr. Schacht is the only German bigwig who is persona grata in British financial circles for, despite the way he has kicked around the laws of economics, British bankers like to think that he has done so under political compulsion, that fundamentally he is a sound financier who may eventually lead Germany back to respectable financial methods: His host last week was his old friend, hoary-bearded Montagu Norman, Governor of the Bank of England...
...last week were Rumania's King Carol II and 17-year-old Crown Prince Mihai. In the years after Carol had divorced his wife and temporarily abandoned his throne to live in France with lissome, red-haired Magda Lupescu, daughter of a Jewish druggist, he was persona non grata to the British royal family. Queen Mary refused to have him in her house...
Ever since Joseph O'Mahoney remarked during the Court Fight: "Mr. President, have you ever considered how history will regard your position on this bill?" the Wyoming Senator has been persona non grata at the White House. Last week Washington gossip was that the Administration group in the Temporary National Economic (Antimonopoly) Committee had definitely swiped control from Senator O'Mahoney. At least the committee last week sent out a batch of subpoenas without Chairman O'Mahoney's knowledge. Nonetheless, Senator O'Mahoney is still TNEC's titular chief and when he rose before...
Robert Frost should be persona grata to two opposing parties: Yankees who never touch poetry and poetry-bibbers who shy at Yankees. For Robert Frost has a foot in both camps. New Englanders who pride themselves on their conservative shrewdness and rock-bound individualism think they recognize him as one of themselves; and poets know he is a poet. His prosiest lines are often lifted into verse by some piece of sly wit or canny wisdom, and at its best his poetry is as strong and simple as his Vermont landscape...
...trap to catch recognition and that, recognition having been caught, they became scraps of paper. When the U. S. Congress ascertained the facts, it refused to appropriate the necessary $1,100,000 for U. S. Embassy & Consular buildings in the Soviet Union. Today Ambassador Bullitt, highly persona grata in Moscow, constitutes almost the sole friendly link between Moscow and Washington. Last week Comrade Litvinoff, obviously more worried than he cared to admit by the attention Mr. Howard had called to the Soviet-U. S. situation, bleated in Moscow: "The question of Communist propaganda is a stale subject about which there...