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*The U. S. maintained ministers at the Vatican between 1848 and 1867, when, with the end of the Papacy's temporal power in sight, the U. S. Congress ceased appropriating money for its legation. Relations were never formally broken.
Not so ill-starred as the Deutschland, but almost, was Passenger Thomas C. Smith, special disbursing officer of the U. S. Legation at Copenhagen, whose voyage home was his first vacation in ten years. Uncrossing his fingers when the ship pulled in, Vacationist Smith recalled two other vacations in the...
When Princess Radziwill heard that Daniele Varè was hesitating between a musical and a diplomatic career, she told him: "There is a new character for you to create. The Laughing Diplomat." This was at the Italian embassy in Berlin, in 1900, when Varè was 20. Young Varè...
Named Minister of Eire to the U. S. was Robert Brennan, the Eire legation's chargé d'affaires in Washington since Minister Michael MacWhite was transferred to Rome last March. In 1916 Minister Brennan was condemned to death for his potent activities in the abortive Sinn Fein...
A mountain of luggage, exceptional even for a traveling British peer, went with Lord & Lady Runciman to Prague. He told reporters: "I may stay a month, or it may be three months." The Czechoslovak Government, on discovering that the British Legation staff were turning out in top hats to meet...