Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, Boris Morros identified the woman. She was, said he, Martha Dodd Stern, the Communist-minded daughter of William E. Dodd, onetime (1933-37) U.S. Ambassador to Germany in the Roosevelt Administration. The U.S. already knew a lot about the activities of Martha Stern and her wealthy husband Alfred, who had been hiding out in Mexico and dodging extradition and indictment as members of Jack Soble's spy network. But last week it learned more. The Sterns had flown from Mexico City on a Dutch airliner, were said...
Washington, denouncing the whole fantastic plot as a "fabrication," promptly retaliated. It expelled the Syrian ambassador, Dr. Farid Zeineddine, a garrulous and haughty diplomat who has never been a State Department favorite anyway. It was the first time the U.S. has declared a chief of mission persona non grata since Robert Lansing handed the Austro-Hungarian ambassador his walking papers in 1915. The State Department also announced that U.S. Ambassador to Syria James Moose (one of only three U.S. ambassadors in the Arab world who can speak the language) would not return to his Damascus post...
...Copenhagen, Danish-descended Val Peterson, new U.S. Ambassador to Denmark and onetime federal Civil Defense administrator, collected a plaque sent to him by citizens of Dannebrog, Neb., pleased bike-loving Danes by pedaling jauntily about on a two-wheeler...
Sent abroad by the State Department in 1955 as an athletic ambassador, Althea made friends and won tournaments from Naples to New Delhi. In Paris last year, she won the French championship, her first big-time title. At Wimbledon, where the heady traditions of genteel sport stretch back beyond any at Forest Hills, her new-found confidence carried her all the way to the quarter-finals before she faltered. This year even Wimbledon succumbed, and Althea came home a queen, owner of tennis' brightest crown...
Earl E. T. Smith, new Ambassador to Cuba, who infuriated Cuba's Dictator Fulgencio Batista by putting out a statement criticizing police mistreatment of Cuban women demonstrators. Said Dulles: "I want to say that it is a statement which, perhaps, from a purely technical point of view, may not have been perfectly correct. But it was a very human statement. I'm glad that we have some, in fact I hope many, ambassadors who are not mere automatic machines but who do have sentiments of humanity which they sometimes express without regard, perhaps, to the diplomatic niceties...