Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hurriedly, the State Department put out an official apology. Wilson Flake, U.S. Ambassador to Ghana, forestalled an official protest to Washington from the Ghana government by making a public statement that this was "an exceptional and isolated incident." President Eisenhower invited Gbedemah to breakfast with him and Vice President Nixon at the White House, put on an Eisenhower tour of the historic White House first floor, explained frankly that "little bits like that happen all over the place and you never know when they'll blow up or where...
...last week named its first ambassador to the new Southeast Asian nation of Malaya. Appointed by President Eisenhower: Career Diplomat Homer Morrison Byington Jr., 49, born of U.S. parents at Naples, Italy, educated at Phillips Academy and Yale ('30), veteran of foreign service in Cuba, Yugoslavia, Italy (ten years) and Spain, credited by old foreign service hands as having "the smoothness with which machinery rolls." Last job: minister of the U.S. mission in Madrid...
Ever since Dwight Eisenhower named him Ambassador to Ceylon, millionaire New York Dress Manufacturer Maxwell H. Gluck has been trying to live down the howl that went up when he ingenuously admitted to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that he did not know the name of Ceylon's Prime Minister...
That night Prime Minister Bandaranaike had a private chat with his Education Minister, and the next morning Dahanayake took the only way out: he baldly denied that the incident had taken place. "There is no truth," he said, "in reports that I refused to see the U.S. Ambassador." Ceylonese, who know a rude minister from an earnest ambassador, were beginning to see some good in Mr. Gluck...
...when Brownshirts clomped into his apartment and Jones, thanks to extraordinary maneuvering, appeared by chartered plane from Prague, did Freud agree to go to England. To arrange the trip it took three months and all of Jones's influence with highly placed Britons, plus an assist from U.S. Ambassador to France William C. Bullitt and possibly a word from Franklin Roosevelt and Mussolini as well. Freud's ailing heart, buoyed by nitroglycerin, stood the journey well, and he was received in London like a conqueror-as befitted a man who during the trip had dreamed that...