Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...party system. A Liberal in Ottawa who voted Tory summed up a common Liberal reaction: "I never dreamed everybody else would do what I did!" Among the irritants was External Affairs Chief Lester Pearson's we-know-best refusal to answer the crowding questions about the suicide of Ambassador Herbert Norman in Egypt (see box). The voters saw in earnest John Diefenbaker a way to unload .the entrenched government. Riled at the Liberal assumption that only Liberals could competently rule, they decided that the time for a change had come...
...Shunning a doctrinaire stand, he goes along with Can ada's pattern of government competition with private enterprise in rails, airlines, hotels, TV. He is temperately critical of the U.S. cultural, economic and political "invasion" of Canada, favors "Canada first," closer ties to Britain. When Herbert Norman, Canadian Ambassador to Egypt, killed himself after a U.S. Senate subcommittee charged him with Communist sympathies in the '30s, Diefenbaker sided with the resulting wave of anti-U.S. feeling, simultaneously attacked the Liberal government for covering up the facts about Norman...
...Philippines, onetime U.S. Ambassador to Russia Charles ("Chip") Bohlen presented his credentials to President Carlos P. Garcia at Malacanan Palace, later chatted informally over cigarettes while the first rain after a long dry spell-an omen for the new ambassador's success-began to fall on Manila...
Chester Bowles, former ambassador to India . .LL.D...
George Kennan. former ambassador to the Soviet Union and Pulitzer Prize historian LL.D...