Word: charged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German Chargé d'Affaires in Buenos Aires last week formally refused the request of Argentina's Supreme Court that the Nazi spymaster and Naval Attaché, Captain Dietrich Niebuhr (TIME, Jan. 4), stand trial in Argentina for espionage. Thus Captain Niebuhr would escape the justice of Argentina's highest court, spend the duration of the war (if Argentina remained neutral), shielded by diplomatic immunity, within the bulging walls of the German Embassy. This week Argentina slapped back, requested that the spy be recalled to Germany...
...delicate Gallic affair to fit a cinesatire on Henri Landru, the French Bluebeard. Wendell Willkie, back home in Rushville (see p. 20), eagerly looked forward to his first haircut since Cairo, 6,500 miles, six weeks back. From Vichy came an eye-catching picture of dapper Porfirio Rubirosa, Dominican chargé d'affaires, his smart new wife, Cinemactress Danielle Darrieux, her hat -a full-fashioned, high-riding model reminiscent of a quilted, candy-stuffed, $5 valentine-the first Paris style news in months...
Married. Cinemactress Danielle Darrieux (The Virgin Bride, The Art of Love, Mayerling); and Porfirio Rubirosa, Dominican chargé d'affairs in Vichy; both for the second time; in Vichy. Her first was French Cinedirector Henri Decoin; Rubirosa's first was Flor de Oro Trujillo, daughter of the President of the Dominican Republic...
Without so much as a diplomatic hesitation, the U.S. told Vichyfrance last week that a spade is a spade. When flabby, sinister Pierre Laval protested to the U.S. Chargé d'Affairs, S. Pinkney Tuck, that the U.S. bombings of Rouen and Havre were "odious aggression," Mr. Tuck did not even pretend to wait for an answer from Washington. Then & there, he told Laval that the U.S. did not aim to kill Frenchmen but all factories in Occupied France operated by or for Germany "would be bombed at every opportunity in the future...
...when German Chargé d'Affaires Hans Thomsen slipped out of his embassy to deliver Germany's declaration to Secretary Hull. When the Secretary did come, Dr. Thomsen was told that he was "engaged." Finally Dr. Thomsen delivered his note to the Chief of the European Division, went glumly back to the ramshackle old red-brick Embassy...