Word: strausser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...caller was George Strausser Messersmith, U.S. Ambassador to Argentina. As usual, he was hard at work. For at 63, George Messersmith, veteran of 32 years in the foreign service, has a strenuous mission: to break, if possible, the impasse which has stultified U.S.-Argentine relations for more than a decade and thus to bring some realism and understanding to U.S.-Latin American policy in general...
...George Strausser Messersmith was U.S. consul general in Berlin when Hermann Goring paid him a call one day. Hitler's No. 2 man was in his usual arrogant mood. He swept his hand over a map of South America. There was one of Germany's spheres of influence, he boasted, and began pounding the table. Messersmith stopped him. "This is my house," Messersmith said coldly. "No one pounds the table here but me. If there is any pounding done, I will...
...George Strausser Messersmith, U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, last week addressed himself to an important oddity in Pan American relations. In the third year of the Good Neighbor policy, in Mexico's eleventh month of war on the U.S. side, at a time when the U.S. was spending many millions of dollars south of the border, suspicion of the gringos was again on the rise. The 13th Pan American Day was approaching, and Good Neighbor oratory was in order, but Ambassador Messer smith considered it necessary to play the stern mentor. Said he, in his most impor tant speech since...
...next U.S. Ambassador to Mexico will be one of the State Department's ablest, busiest career diplomats. For last week President Roosevelt chose George Strausser Messersmith, now Ambassador to Cuba, to succeed Josephus Daniels in Mexico City...