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...envoy in Moscow accredited to the Soviet Union. This man, notoriously secretive, refuses to talk with foreigners. Until recently he was accounted a nonentity in the Moscow diplomatic picture. However, there are indications that his status has altered. When Marshal Tito visited Moscow, the Mongolian envoy was invited to greet him at the airport by the protocol department of the Commissariat for Foreign Affairs and was introduced to the Yugoslav leader by Commissar Viacheslav M. Molotov...
After five years in the German Reich, Winston Churchill's "dear Channel Islands" were back in the British Empire last week. The Germans had surrendered. Cheering crowds lined the harbor of St. Peter Port, the port of Guernsey, to greet the British battalions. Then, out of an assault craft stepped an austere, black-clad man. On his head was a black bowler. In one hand he held a tightly rolled umbrella. Under one arm he hugged a black G.R. (a dispatch case with a George Rex imprint). At the first sight since 1940 of a typical London civil servant...
Another returned with a cooing blond baby in his arms. His wife rushed to greet him, drew back in dismay. But Jacques, with French common sense, spoke firmly to his Jacqueline: "I worked on a German farm. The farmer's daughter and I-well, you understand-in fact, you see. She and her parents were killed by Allied artillery. So here we are, both of us. I love you very much. I want to take up our old life together. But you'll have to accept little Jacques. I adore you, but on this subject no nonsense...
Navy wives will hold a tea to greet new wives on Wednesday, April 25 at the Student Club of the Harvard Business School from 1:30 to 4 o'clock. Mrs. McIntosh, wife of Captain K. C. McIntosh, USN (retired), officer-in-charge of the Supply School, will preside...
...white palace at Rabat in French Morocco, this state of affairs was as unpleasant as it was to the British and the French. Sidi Mohamed had his palace, his four wives, his growing brood of sons, his 100 concubines, his French chef, his crimson carriage, his salaaming subjects, who greet him with the cry "How great is the Sultan"-an exclamation, not a question. But he was not consoled...