, 9th Baronet, (5 February 1869 – 24 May 1941) was a British diplomat. A well-travelled diplomat, learning Arabic, Japanese and German, he is best remembered for his role as British Ambassador to Berlin from 1928 to 1933, where he warned of the ambitions of Hitler and Nazi Germany....
was an important factor." Donovan also urged that the government should sack AmbassadorJoseph Kennedy, who was predicting a German victory.Edgar Ansel Mowreralso wrote a series of articles, based on information supplied byWilliam Stephenson, thatNazi Germanyposed a serious threat to the United ...
On 12 June 1939, on the eve of the Second World War, the French Ambassador to the Holy See, Francois Charles-Roux, regretting the impartial reaction of Pius XII to the aggressive demands imposed upon Catholic Poland by the Nazis, observe... FJ Coppa - 《Journal of Church & State》 被...
Our first Ambassador to Beijing was a communist sympathiser, his son-in-law a leading Indian communist. India was the first country outside the Soviet bloc to recognise Communist China, the first to help Mao diplomatically in the Korean war, the pioneer of many UN resolutions to have ...
The July 22nd edition included a note from the US ambassador to the Foreign Office expressing "grave concerns" about the dispute, before "the British and the French Ambassadors in Rome are expected to see Mussolini in a last bit for a 'compromise'."[18] This coverage of the issue ...
Ambassador to the Philippines Stephen W. Bosworth, 1984.(more) Get a Britannica Premium subscription and gain access to exclusive content. Subscribe Now By 1983 Marcos’s health was beginning to fail, and opposition to his rule was growing. Hoping to present an alternative to both Marcos and...
s takeover of Germany took place at the home of Joachim von Ribbentrop, who, as a traveling teenager, had been adopted into the household of the Duke of Connaught. Ribbentrop then became the head of Hitler’s foreign intelligence service. As Hitler’s ambassador to England, Ribbentrop worked...
Both names also share a Victorian style-era. Ernest was a top 20 name for five decades, from 1870 to 1924, in England and Wales. August, however, was little used in Britain — the forms Augustus, Augustine, and even Austin, were more common. But in Germany, where August was the stand...
Under torture he revealed a plot to invade England and place Mary on the throne, naming several allies in his confession. Throckmorton was executed and Bernardino de Mendoza, the Spanish ambassador, was sent back to Spain. This conspiracy was one of the reasons the symbolic Bond of Association...
to the preparation of this thesis. In the following days he has carefully guided me through every stage of the project. Without his scholarly criticism and patience it will be impossible to accomplish this thesis. Then, I want to express my infinite appreciation to Professor Wang Enming, whose...