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...Poughkeepsie station President Roosevelt smoked calmly until the train from the north came in-green coaches emblazoned with the Canadian crest. Protocol-Master George Thomas Summerlin dropped his hand-rolled, brown-paper cigaret, brushed off his pencil-stripe trousers, walked down the station stairs to greet the tweedy Guards-mustached Earl of Athlone, Governor General of Canada, his wife, Princess Alice, their daughter, Lady May Abel Smith...
With bland disregard for Latin protocol, Nazi Karl Arnold sneaked out of Argentina one day last month, deported himself to Uruguay before he could be officially ousted for his part in an abortive Nazi coup (TIME, Aug. 26). Indignantly Argentina insisted that he be returned and deported properly: receive the expulsion order in person, remain in jail until formally escorted out of the country...
With that the conference moved to a swift Axis finish. In the Gold Room of "the Belvedere the two Hungarians and the two Rumanians met with Ciano, Ribbentrop and Baron Alexander von Dornberg, German Chief of Protocol...
...restaurant on Manhattan's Sixth Avenue, edited a Bronx newspaper; his return to Russia after the March Revolution of 1917, where he joined Lenin, helped to stage the October Revolution, conducted the Brest-Litovsk peace negotiations with Germany. Because it seemed a major point of proletarian protocol, he wired Lenin to ask whether he should wear a tailcoat to the peace celebration. Lenin answered: "If it will help to bring peace, go in a petticoat...
...because it was more subtle, the Japanese marked the occasion by going full-out for the skins of all the foreigners in China except themselves. Instead of using long-swords and rifles, the Japanese advanced on foreign citizens and interests with high-explosive accusations, brickbats of propaganda, bolts of protocol. The campaign was far less spectacular but far more important than the local Boxer Uprising. By last week the three burning unknowns in the truly World War were Russia, Japan, the U. S. Japan's diplomatic offensive touched off an intricate interplay which threatened...