Word: charge
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Although some of the homing officials had been rooted out of their posts by the war machines of Hitler and Stalin, and one, Ambassador Phillips, was convalescing from an illness, the fact remained that no chargé d'affaires had the weight or the prestige to do an Ambassador's work at the key capitals...
...editor, historian, Minister of the Interior in the last Republican Government; Antonio Cruz Salido, onetime Secretary of the Spanish Socialist Party; Carlos Montilla y Escudero, onetime Director of Spanish Railways, Loyalist Counselor in Havana; Miguel Salvador y Carreras, famed music critic, co-founder of the Madrid Philharmonic Society, Loyalist Chargé d'Affaires in Copenhagen. Over their bodies, the Spain of Franco aspires to a "prominent place over the ruins of Europe...
...time the survivors had been returned to Britain the death roll had mounted to 83 of the 90 children and 210 of 316 adults, some of them refugees from German concentration camps. Among the dead were Rudolf Olden, onetime anti-Hitler editor of the Berliner Tageblatt; Dr. Gallinsky, new Chargé d'Affaires of the Polish Embassy in Washington; Colonel James Baldwin-Webb, M. P., on a Red Cross mission to Canada...
...long list of dispossessed diplomats in Washington last week was added Denmark's Minister Henrik de Kauffmann.* When this cinematically handsome, longtime diplomat's Government ordered him to cooperate with German Chargé d'Affaires Hans Thomsen, easygoing Minister de Kauffmann...
...nine years Luxembourg's best friend-in-residence has been the U. S. Chargé d'Affaires, George Platt Waller, who bestows on the dynasties of Central Europe that tender, familiar worship that the true Southern aristocrat can give only to royal families and his own. Visiting U. S. journalists address him as "Mr. Minister," enjoy equally his Martinis and his conversation. He likes to have them in Luxembourg because, if the Grand Duchy is invaded again, he wants neutral witnesses of her rape. No alarmist either, it was he who undoubtedly facilitated Reporter Casey's quick...