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...Hjalmar Johan Procopé entered a side door of the gloomy old State Department, was ushered into the office of the protocol chief, bald, urbane George T. Summerlin. Fifteen minutes later Mr. Procopé hurried out, brusque and ruffled. The Finnish Minister to the U.S. had been handed his passport, had been told to get out of the country as soon as he could arrange it. Thus, in a way almost unprecedented in U.S. history,* ended the Washington career of the man who only a few years ago was the capital's most lionized diplomat...
Exit Finns. Handsome, clever and soon divorced, Minister Procopé became the ideal extra man at dinner almost as soon as he arrived in 1939. When he finally eloped with the niece of a British countess (he was 50, she 29), hearts broke all over Washington, from Chevy Chase to Georgetown. Minister Procopé's popularity was more than personal. He represented the one country that continued to pay back its World War I debt to the U.S. (he paid an installment just 24 hours before he was expelled). Finland, too, was then the brave little nation which...
When the U.S. entered the war as an ally of Russia, and the Russian Army was toasted at Washington parties, Minister Procopé stubbornly went right on fearing and hating Russia. Naturally he became less popular...
...week's end the rigid rules applied to Minister Procopé were relaxed a little when the Department learned that Mme. Procopé will have a child in the next fortnight. And the move did not clarify U.S.-Finnish relations, it turned out; the official announcement said: "This action does not constitute a rupture of diplomatic relations...
When he concluded. Cordell Hull looked like a man who had been forced to spank his son. Newsmen recalled the 1939 day when handsome Finnish Minister Hjalmar Procopé had been cheered to the rafters by a group of hard-boiled Washington reporters; the day President Roosevelt had read his moving statement assuring Finland of "the respect and warm regard of the people and the Government of the United States...