Word: charged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next it was China's turn to welcome the world's No. 1 international bureaucrat. On the way to Peking by plane, Hammarskjold paused at Hankow to meet, of all people, his nephew Peder Hammarskjold, chargé d'affaires at the Swedish embassy to Red China.* He arrived in the Chinese capital in sub-zero weather...
Jawaharlal Nehru last week accepted new tokens of concord from Red China: two spotted deer, a couple of long-necked cranes, and 100 fat goldfish swimming in bowls. Nehru thanked Red China's beaming donor. Chargé d'Affaires Shen Chien, but took Shen aside later on to ask about another recent consignment from Peking. How does it happen, asked Nehru, that Indian Communists are now selling Peking-printed maps that show 57,000 square miles of India's Assam, neighboring Burma, and Nehru's own ancestral Kashmir as districts of "People's China...
Among those conspicuously not present: U.S. Ambassador "Chip" Bohlen (vacationing in Western Europe); the U.S. chargé d'affaires, who was invited at the last moment to the reception but not the dinner and declined...
...Rubi" launched his career back in 1933 with a brief marriage to the spectacular Flor de Oro Trujillo, daughter of Dominican Dictator Rafael ("El Benefactor") Trujillo. Despite their divorce he was named chargé d'affaires in Paris in 1939, and went on to marry, successively, Actress Danielle Darrieux, sometimes called "the most beautiful woman in the world," and Doris Duke Cromwell, "the richest woman in the world." His job also led him to seeming affluence far beyond his official salary of $600 a month. Last week it came to a halt: Rubi got fired...
...Iranian chargé d'affaires in Rome and a functionary from the Italian Foreign Ministry, both of whom had ignored the Shah's harried arrival in Rome, came to pay their belated respects. On top of things again, the Shah refused to see the charge d'affaires who had snubbed him; later the Shah had him fired. Next morning, the Shah slipped out to a jeweler's and selected a variety of diamond baubles for Soraya. This was a consolation gift for her agreeing to remain a while in Rome for her "health." Then he boarded...