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...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...
...Ipswich, England, Mrs. Kathleen Walters had anxiously waited for news of her R.A.F. husband, shot down over Germany shortly after their honeymoon. Last week she learned that the Red Army had freed him from a prison camp in eastern Germany. Mrs. Walters' feelings were uncomplicated by politics or protocol. So she sat down and wrote a letter in which she managed to express the simple gratitude that many similarly uncomplicated Britons feel toward the Russians. She addressed her letter simply to Joseph Stalin Esquire, Kremlin, Moscow: "Dear Marshal Stalin: My prayers have been answered and now what more...
...Arab Portent. But the Kings had forgathered for more than fun. Their meeting, more than a symbol of union between the opposite ends of the Pan-Arab political axis, was a portent of Pan-Arabia itself. A Pan-Arab protocol had already been signed in Alexandria by Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Transjordan (TIME, Oct. 16). But a Pan-Arabia without Saudi Arabia was merely a desert mirage. Not that Ibn Saud was hostile to the idea. But he believed that Allah had entrusted him with the divine mission of knitting all Arabs into one nation. Knowing this, Farouk...
...Protocol called for tails, black vests and white ties. But the Embassy staff-21 strong-were tailless, so there was a compromise on dark suits. Pat Hurley wore his beribboned, bemedaled, two-star uniform. At 9 a.m. the staff ran through a dress rehearsal. By n o'clock all hands had gathered at the curly-roofed headquarters building of Chiang's Government...
...Thanks, Bob." Day after the Senate confirmation, into Cordell Hull's old black leather office crowded tittering Government clerks, a jostling mass of hardelbowed photographers, the Stettinius family-wife Virginia Wallace Stettinius, sons Edward R. III, 16, Wallace and Joseph, twins, 11-the protocol officer in striped pants, Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson in black, General George Marshall in olive drab, and Ed Stettinius in a blue business suit. The Secretary of State's desk, stacked high for twelve years with pamphlets, cables and memos, was clean...