Word: steinhardt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Decided flatly (but privately) not to recall from Russia U. S. Ambassador Laurence Steinhardt, but left the matter on a 24-hour basis. Franklin Roosevelt firmly believes that in his foreign policy he has made but one bad blunder: withdrawal one year ago of U. S. Ambassador to Germany Hugh Wilson. Mr. Roosevelt regards Ambassadors as reporters, doesn't like the second-hand reports now coming out of Berlin to the U. S. via London and Paris. The Kremlin, he well knows, would not care a fingersnap if Mr. Steinhardt were recalled, and then...
...fooling, most foreign diplomats in Moscow thought that Joseph Stalin's last wish was an ever so tiny war. They believed until the last minute that Comrade Stalin was merely trying a "war of nerves" on the Finns. So sure was U.S. Ambassador to Russia Laurence A. Steinhardt that there would not be war that he was caught off-base in Sweden, rushed back by special plane to Moscow where he had plenty to do expressing the U. S. Government's ideas...
...days later, after Representative John McCormack of Boston had demanded the recall from Moscow of U. S. Ambassador Steinhardt, Franklin Roosevelt remarked softly that bad manners should never beget bad manners...
...third day of City of Flint's stay, Ambassador Steinhardt, armed with new instructions from Washington, talked over the case with Foreign Commissariat officials. Hour and a half later the Soviet radio announced that Russia was releasing the ship on condition that she leave Murmansk at once. Next day Ambassador Steinhardt slapped down his trumps. With an indignation compatible with the strength of his position, he: > Accused the SovietGovernment of refusing to cooperate in providing information...
...crew during the voyage of City of Flint to Germany, Russian diplomacy looked like a tricky sequence of twists, evasions, contradictions. Nobody needed to point out the main consequence: if anything happened to the 41 U. S. sailors, Russia's refusal to permit Ambassador Steinhardt to get in touch with them would become a diplomatic blunder of the first magnitude...