Word: allisons
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John Moore Allison, to be Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs, replacing Dean Rusk...
Career: After teaching English in Japanese schools and doing commercial work in Japan and China, Allison started with the Foreign Service in 1930. He has held a dozen diplomatic posts in the Far East. In 1938 in Nanking, he figured in a red-hot diplomatic incident when a Jap sentry slapped his face; the Japs quickly apologized. Last year he acted as John Foster Dulles' assistant in the preparation of the Japanese Peace Treaty and the Pacific security pact...
...Allison is married, has no children...
...Oriental scholar and linguist, Allison is one of State's best-informed experts on the Far East, but lacks the drive of his predecessor...
...Temporarily, the State Department is filling both McGhee's and Rusk's posts with career diplomats: Middle East Expert Burton Y. Berry and Far East Specialist John M. Allison. Probable permanent successor to McGhee: West Pointer Henry Byroade, 38, an Army colonel on detached service, who is now running State's German Affairs Bureau...