Word: charged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world got set for Mossy's next move: kicking out the British chargé d'affaires. After all, some weeks before, the Iranian Foreign Ministry had borrowed from the British embassy library a book on the complicated protocol of severing diplomatic relations, and still had not returned the book. Soon it became clear that Mossadegh was stalling. He did not really want to break off diplomatic relations; he just hoped that the West (meaning the U.S.), shocked by his radio statement, would break down and come through with a good offer. It was the old Mossadegh game again...
...Werner von Barge, member of the Bonn Foreign Office legal staff, with ambassadorial rank, had served as Nazi minister to Belgium, where he helped to round up the Jews, later went to Paris as chargé d'affaires, where he did nothing to prevent the shooting of hostages. Suspended...
Listing names, dates and places, Lacerda cited four consuls, two chargés d'affaires and three home-office functionaries as Reds. The chief coddler of the Communists, Lacerda said, is Career Diplomat Orlando Leite Ribeiro, "a personal friend of Communist Leader Luis Carlos Pres-tes." After Leite Ribeiro became head of the foreign ministry's administration department in 1951, charged Tribuna, Reds were brought into the ministry and Reds already in the foreign service got remarkable promotions. Items: A woman Communist was hired as a code clerk in the home office, where she is in position...
Venezuelan security police intercepted two suspected Russian secret agents at Caracas' Maiquetia Airport a fortnight ago, and later deported them. Last week, after a bitter exchange of protests, Venezuela announced that it had broken off relations with Russia and recalled its chargé d'affairs from Moscow. In Latin America, only Argentina, Uruguay and Mexico still maintain diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union...
...British had shown a new realism about Communist China. Hong Kong itself, precarious though its position is, has recently shown more resistance to Peking pressure. Yet the British still held out the hand of diplomatic recognition to the Chinese Communists, even though their ambassador was spurned, and their Peking chargéd'affaires is treated contemptuously, referred to only as "Mr. Lamb" and given no diplomatic status...