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...time in his native country, much less write a book about it, but he ended by doing both. The Native's Return, something between a travel diary and a guide book, is better than most such journalistic accounts. Though his book may well make its author persona non grata with the Jugoslavian Government, it should certainly boom the Dalmatian tourist trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old Country | 2/5/1934 | See Source »

Last week President Roosevelt appointed Assistant Secretary of State Sumner Welles to be Ambassador to Cuba (see p. 12). "Persona grata" to the Government, he was at once marked by anti-Machado Cubans as the catalytic that may somehow purge Cuba of Terror. They believed that Dictator Machado did not know last week where he stands with the U. S. Many wanted to believe the rumor that Machado is all packed, ready to flee Cuba and the thousand vendettas that have been sworn against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: A Few Children | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

Claude Gernade Bowers of Manhattan, journalist, political historian (The Tragic Era) was pronounced persona grata at Madrid. Owl-eyed Mr. Bowers keynoted the 1928 Democratic Convention ("To your tents. O Israel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Appointments | 3/20/1933 | See Source »

...Nancy Langhorne) used to know each other during the War in England. Recently Viscount and Lady Astor have been visiting the U. S. When they week-ended with President-elect Roosevelt at Hyde Park, Washington gossips suspected that Lady Astor was trying to make her husband persona grata in the hope of wangling an appointment as British Ambassador to the U. S. for him after March 4. Last week Sir Ronald Lindsay, the present Ambassador, took the Astors to the White House to see the President. After a 30-minute call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Big Shuffle | 12/19/1932 | See Source »

Annoyed by this blunt suggestion that he is persona non grata even to Spanish Royalists in Paris, large-lipped Alfonso XIII dismissed them curtly, snapped. "There has been no development in the politics of my beloved Spain which would warrant such action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Force, While Necessary! | 12/5/1932 | See Source »

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