Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leader Sam Rayburn of Texas, Whip Paddy Boland of Scranton, Pa., delivered the South bound-and-gagged to the New Deal. John McCormack broke a long and agonized silence on the embargo-repeal issue to deliver only a speech. In it he demanded that the U. S. recall its Ambassador from Moscow (see p. 15). Score at week's end: Warren I, McCormack...
This very quality of indecision was just the reason why Nobuyuki Abe was chosen: he would be pliable. But those who chose him did not realize that under him the whole Government would degenerate into machinery for vacillation. Since U. S. Ambassador Joseph Clark Grew gave Japan a piece of the U. S. mind on Oct. 19, the Japanese have wavered worse than before...
First they said they appreciated Mr. Grew's sincerity. Then they contradicted his points. Premier Abe talked with Foreign Minister Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura and it was announced that conversations would be held with the Ambassador. Then the Army talked with Premier Abe and it was announced that they would not. Foreign Minister Nomura would talk with Ambassador Grew privately, informally. No, the Foreign Minister was "too busy"; he would not. Last week...
...this time the U. S. had become infected with inconsistency. First reports said that during their talk Ambassador Grew had threatened economic pressure if Japan did not change her policy in China. Second (official) reports said he had not made any threat...
Count Jersey Petcock, still the officially recognized ambassador to the United States from non-existent Poland, will give an address in Emerson D this afternoon at 4 o'clock concerning the position of his nation in the present European...