Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Inside the Embassy, recently accredited Soviet Ambassador Alexander A. Shkvartsev, onetime textile engineer and said to have been former private secretary of Premier-Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov, was host at as brilliant a reception as ever celebrated on foreign soil an anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, until very recently a black day on the Nazi calendar. Although the U. S. S. R. has never rated as a gourmet's paradise, diplomats the world over long ago learned to expect at Soviet Embassy parties as tasty spreads as ever graced a Tsar's table. In hungry Germany the Embassy...
Besides sampling generously the whipped cream, cake and beer, and holding a prolonged conference with His Excellency the Ambassador (the Italian Ambassador was the party's wallflower), Field Marshal Göring allowed himself to be cornered by foreign newsmen and interviewed on the U. S. embargo repeal. While Ja-man Bodenschatz chimed in with Nazi amens to his chief's words, the correspondents put these questions and Göring gave these answers...
...Founder's Day of Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, British Ambassador to the U. S. Lord Lothian-who so far has got neatly over every hurdle that might offend U. S. public opinion-proposed "unity of nations under law, with government possessed of police powers." Totalitarian imperialism must be ended, he said, and the weaknesses of democracy corrected. "Democracy was right in its insistence on liberty and personal responsibility, but in practice the free peoples have abused the freedom it has given them by turning it, as St. Paul says, to uses of the flesh. . . . The leaders of democracy...
Meanwhile Japan also turned on the U. S., reacting violently from its soft answers to Ambassador Joseph Clark Crew's dressing-down of last month. Mr. Tetsuma Hashimoto, president of a one-man patriotic society called the Purple Cloud, bought five columns in the Tokyo newspaper Yomiuri to call the U. S. "a pampered millionaire who dabbles in charity without having known suffering." In one of Japan's fishy journalistic coincidences, three important papers all poked fun at the U. S. on the same morning. The Foreign Office spokesman said that Japan will not remain indifferent...
...Colonel Crozet was absent. Graduates had hoped to have his remains enshrined on the campus by centennial time, had sought a permit of exhumation from Shockoe Cemetery in Richmond. Few days before, Elizabeth Wright Weddell, sister of Ambassador to Argentina Alexander Weddell, turned up records of the Colonel's burial (in 1864) in another cemetery. Regretfully, V. M. I. celebrated without its founder, hoped soon to bring him home...