Word: plenipotentiaryâ
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...title, no authority except a tacit understanding that he spoke for the President. Nowadays U.S. diplomacy is like that; and so last week plain "Mr." Root was greeted with as many courtesies by the League's Big Three* as though his title were "Special Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary??? which it is in all but the capitalization, so far as Europe is concerned. Only in U.S. hay mows do a few yokels with pitchforks still believe that a citizen, who comes "from" the President, represents?as Mr. Root modestly says that he does?"only my own opinion...
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