Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about the middle of Queen Victoria's reign, any member could secure a secret session by calling to the Speaker, "I spy strangers!" But after this cry had ejected the German Ambassador and the Prince of Wales, later Edward VII, the procedure was modified...
...Section three, "Germany's Efforts to Secure Peaceful Relations With Its Neighbors," traces the activities of the Führer "to achieve good relations" with Great Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands, Yugoslavia, Hungary and Lithuania. The Führer is quoted (cracking back when British Ambassador Sir Nevile Henderson complained of German noncooperation with Britain) : "It takes two to make a love match." In the fourth and final section, "Poland as the Tool of England's War Will," the German White Book duplicates many of the British Blue Book's documents on the August 1939 crisis...
Because a Brussels, Belgium, golfer named King Leopold III once gave U. S. Ambassador Joseph E. Davies a lesson in chip-shots, and a trimming (Davies, 85, Leopold, 69), last week grateful Mr. Davies made the King an honorary member of Washington's swank Burning Tree Golf Club...
...Britain is systematically and subtly poisoning U. S. minds, hopes to get the U. S. into this war in jig-time. Director of this campaign, says he, is Sir Robert Vansittart, chief diplomatic adviser of the Foreign Office; among its chief agents are Lord Beaverbrook and Lord Lothian, British Ambassador to Washington. Their U. S. victims to date: President Roosevelt, Ambassadors Joseph Kennedy and William Bullitt, Paul McNutt, the U. S. press, the House of Morgan, the Foreign Policy Association, such educators as Harvard's James Conant and Yale's Charles Seymour. For censorship and propaganda, says...
...Heel Editor is the first of four volumes in which the 77-year-old Ambassador to Mexico proposes to tell the whole of his long life. Taking him through his 30th year, it concerns itself somewhat with his boyhood (his mother's War memories, camp meetings, small-town life, two decades of Reconstruction), chiefly, and in great factual detail, with his young manhood...