Word: missions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...choice: Lester A. Walton, 54, newshawk of his father-in-law's New York Age, formerly writer for the defunct New York World. He visited Monrovia two years ago, was presented with a leopard skin by Liberia's President Barclay, attended sessions of the International Liberian Com-mission at Geneva. Clean shaven, bald, a modest family man, he will now return to Liberia taking his wife and two débutante daughters, 20 & 21. Said the Baltimore Afro-American of Minister-designate Walton: "His indorsements for the position come from a cross-section of American life . . . Senator Robert F. Wagner, white...
That the Dictator's smart entourage had profited from rubbing ideas with Mr. Eden, appeared when Italian Undersecretary for Colonies Alessandro Lessona announced on behalf of Il Duce with a perfectly straight face: "We consider our mission in Ethiopia as sincerely and definitely to abolish slavery and to replace oppression by a harmonious regime of order. We shall give to Ethiopia the opportunity to participate in modern civilization...
...likely issue of their conjunction this week in Washington. Last week they had already started being "good neighbors." On the Rex the Australian Premier regretted and proposed to correct the oversight which makes Australia the only Dominion of the Big Four not represented in Washington by its own diplomatic mission. For his part President Roosevelt took note of the oversight which has made Australia hitherto a spot of exile for members of the U. S. foreign service. In Washington it was briskly announced that swank J. Pierrepont Moffat of the U. S. State Department will go out to Australia...
...back districts for the edification of incredulous Chinese. In the U. S. railroad peddling has been largely confined to private cars in which crack executives tour the land, scatter cheer to underlings and big customers. Last autumn Chairman Winthrop Aldrich of Chase National Bank led a long goodwill mission around the borders of the U. S. in a private car with his nephew Nelson Rockefeller as Exhibit A (TIME, Dec. 24). But not until last fortnight when Chicago's Marshall Field & Co. christened an eleven-car Merchandise Express did the U. S. develop a full-fledged catalog on wheels...
With Japan in process of swallowing North China, President Lin and Premier Wang beamed politely upon their Guest of Honor as he declared, "I pledge myself to promote closer and friendlier relations between Japan and China. My Government attaches great importance to this, my mission." President Lin, a teetotaler and nonsmoker, next uttered compliments of exquisite cordiality, causing the Japanese Ambassador to exclaim: "This crystallizes the mutual respect and goodwill existing between our two countries!" Finally the Chinese hosts uncorked unlimited champagne and a peculiarly good time...