Word: najera
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young Mrs. Ickes in vivid green satin shot with silver was a cynosure at the Cabinet affair, her official debut. The diplomats' party glittered with the uniforms of chargés d'affaires but only ten out of 19 Ambassadors were present: Mexico's Francisco Castillo Najera was absent in Lima; German Hans Dieckhoff had been called home; moose-tall Sir Ronald Lindsay, dean of the diplomatic corps, was vacationing in Britain, but Lady Lindsay attended, holding a little court of her own in the Green Room instead of going down the handshaking line...
Unperturbed by all this furor, a swart, mop-haired, black-toothed man in morning coat and badly-adjusted tie motored last week to the White House Executive Offices. Though he looked like a Mexican bandit, he was in fact Dr. Francisco Castillo Najera, soldier, surgeon, poet, linguist, bon vivant, art collector, idol of Geneva newshawks, statesman and diplomat. Inside the office he found President Roosevelt smilingly erect, heard the State Department's sleek Chief of Protocol James Clement ("Jimmy") Dunn intone: "The Mexican Ambassador...
This diplomatic mummery disposed of, new Ambassador Castillo Najera spoke bluntly to newshawks outside. "There is," said he in excellent English, "a good deal of agitation going on. That agitation is outside Mexico, not in Mexico. Mexico is quite indifferent...
That U. S. agitation may cause Ambassador Castillo Najera serious embarrassment seemed, last week, improbable. Declaring Mexico's religious difficulties none of the U. S.'s business. President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull have put themselves on record as flatly opposed to U. S. intervention. So, too, has the National Council of the Episcopal Church...
...moves against foreign capital (TIME, Feb. 25). Remembering the shady methods employed by some U. S. citizens in acquiring Mexican lands, the State Department is in no hurry to make trouble about the recent occupation by Mexicans of a few U. S.-owned ranches. There remain for Ambassador Castillo Najera the trifling matters of dividing the waters of the lower Rio Grande and Colorado Rivers, of keeping sewage out of the Tia Juana River, of settling the Chamizal boundary dispute at El Paso, Tex., of negotiating a trade treaty...