Word: steinhardt
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...beleaguered Europe only two U. S. Ambassadors were last week at their posts. They were Career Men Laurence A. Steinhardt, on duty in Moscow; Alexander W. Weddell, in Madrid. Empty for more than a year was the important listening post in Berlin. Empty, too, were the critical posts in London, Rome, Vichy. U. S. Ministers still stuck in Greece, Rumania, a few other trouble spots. But home in the U. S. (because of war, vacations, illness, etc.) were $139,500 worth of Ambassadors and Ministers. The roster, with yearly salaries and times of their returns...
Russia, long the most hated nation in the world, became by virtue of the treaty the most sought-after power in the world. U. S. Ambassador Laurence Steinhardt, who had vacationed in the U. S. while the treaty was being cooked up, paid a hurried call on Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov. British Ambassador Sir Stafford Cripps got busy. Japanese Ambassador Yoshitsugu Tatekawa, who hates Communists but loves the "simple, pure-minded Russians," conferred with German Ambassador Count Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg about the non-aggression treaty Japan hopes to negotiate with the U. S. S. R. to safeguard...
...Moscow, Ambassador Laurence A. Steinhardt opened the door of the U. S. Embassy a little-enough to let citizens see, within its secrecy-shrouded interior, that he had conferred long with Premier-Foreign Commissar Molotov just as peace moves got under way in earnest, that he had held an unpublicized reception for the Finnish negotiators when they arrived-all giving rise to a report that the negotiations had been held on the conveniently neutral ground of the U. S. Embassy...
About the same time the U. S. came on the scene. U. S. Ambassador to Russia Laurence A. Steinhardt conferred for an hour at the Kremlin with Foreign Commissar Viacheslav M. Molotov, and talked with other diplomats...
...attack was impending; as the British-Italian trade agreement broke down; as Swedish public opinion split on the question of aid to the Finns and King Haakon of Norway hurried to Stockholm; as Premier Molotov in Moscow gave a three and one-half hour lunch to U. S. Ambassador Steinhardt; as diplomatic life all over Europe speeded up in the wake of the Welles mission, it was plain that, although Sumner Welles made no statement, raised no hopes, he looked to many a European like the agent of a going concern who had entered the realm of disorder. Here & there...