Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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William Howard Taft was President of the U.S. when Wilhelm Munthe de Morgenstierne arrived in Washington as a junior attaché at the old Norwegian legation in 1910. Named Norway's Minister to the U.S. in 1934 and Ambassador in 1942, he saw the U.S. through seven other Presidents, three wars, depression and unprecedented prosperity. Last week, frail and bent at 70, Wilhelm de Morgenstierne, dean of Washington's diplomatic corps, on the eve of his retirement paid a farewell visit to an old friend, Dwight Eisenhower. As he left the White House, Morgenstierne offered some advice about...
Counter-Revolution. After the glum December Plenum, Nikita set to work. Like the practical man he is, he recognized that his liberalization had gone too far. In November 1956, when Hungary was fighting for its freedom, Nikita had lurched up to U.S. Ambassador Charles Bohlen at a Moscow party and said: "I want to talk to you about Suez." "I want to talk to you about Hungary," replied Bohlen. "What are you going to do about it?" Khrushchev exploded. Pumping his fist in a series of short uppercuts, he shouted: "We will put in more troops?and more troops?...
...finance the $345 million city he authorized Novacap to speculate in Brasilia's residential land. He begged U.S. Ambassador Ellis Briggs for a Brasilia loan as a "personal favor," got $10 million from the Export-Import Bank...
David K. E. Bruce, U.S. Ambassador to West Germany (in what the State Department quickly called "a personal view"): There ought to be new moves toward disarmament, with powers other than the U.S. and Russia breaking the deadlock, because the situation is so dangerous that the West can no longer rely on "muddling through...
...Briefing State Department correspondents last week on the Indonesian crisis, Press Officer Lincoln White took extraordinary pains to praise the work of U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia John M. Allison, 52. Behind-the-scenes reason: Old Far East Hand Allison had already written out his resignation in protest against a series of United Press stories from Washington saying that his reporting on the Indonesian crisis (see FOREIGN NEWS) was inadequate. Allison's Washington friends suspected that Allison's Washington rivals were planting the stories to undercut him. To buoy him up, Secretary of State Dulles cabled Allison a personal...