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...Noble Guard, he has held positions in many offices of the Vatican administration and many Congregations of the Curia. Currently he represents Vatican investments on the boards of the Banco di Roma, and pharmaceutical, shipping and piping companies. In 1946 the Central American Republic of Costa Rica appointed him envoy to the Vatican State, upgraded him to ambassador ten years later. Another papal relative is also a diplomat at the Vatican: Count Stanislao Pecci, grandnephew of Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903), Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the Sovereign Military Order of the Knights of Malta...
Closing the doors on his carefree horse-and-filly days, aging (46) Playboy Aly Khan, now Pakistan's permanent U.N. representative, rounded into smooth diplomatic form for his first on-the-job reception, celebrating Pakistan's Republic Day. Full of charm and good humor, Envoy Aly manfully greeted some 1,100 guests (among them: U.S. Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge, mad-hatted Hollywood Gossipist Hedda Hopper, Cinemactor Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) who in two hours guzzled 30 cases of champagne, chomped 30 Ibs. of phaji (spinach fried in batter). For his crowded frolic, Aly earned an approving smile from...
Unerasable Smile. The caller was Mikhail Alekseevich Menshikov, Russia's new ambassador to the U.S. A foreign-trade specialist who persuasively sold the Soviet trade-plus-aid approach as ambassador to India, Envoy Menshikov, 55, is conspicuously suited to the Kremlin's peaceful-coexistence line. In black-and-white contrast to his dour, clam-mouthed predecessor, Georgy Zarubin, he flashes a wide and easy smile, spouts friendly sentiments in fluent English. Upon arrival in the U.S. a fortnight ago, he promptly declared himself an ambassador of "peace, friendship and cooperation." Last week he paid courtesy visits to Vice...
Died. Dr. Sao-ke Alfred Sze, 80, Cornell-educated Chinese diplomat, twice (1921-29, 1933-37) China's chief envoy to the U.S., in 1945 senior adviser to the Chinese delegation at the San Francisco United Nations conference; in Washington...
...Communism's double-edged battle-axes was made an ambassadress in an appointment smacking strongly of nepotism. East Germany's first envoy to Yugoslavia: Lieut. General Eleonore ("Lore") Staimer, 51, dutiful daughter of East Germany's puppet President Wilhelm Pieck. She will probably take her Belgrade post next month, work hard at cultivating new amity between Tito and Soviet satellites...