Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marching into New Delhi's presidential mansion last week to present his credentials as the new U.S. Ambassador to India, scholarly-looking Ellsworth Bunker was momentarily jolted by a loud, off-key blast from a brace of turbaned trumpeters. Next morning when he opened his paper the ambassador was greeted with yet another sour note: a slashing attack on the U.S. and Britain by India's Prime Minister Nehru...
Conant left the University in 1953 to become United States High Commissioner for West Germany. When U.S. occupation ended., he continued as U.S. Ambassador until his recent resignation...
...Israelis must not expect the U.S. to say so too explicitly. So began a semantic battle requiring a conditioned Israel withdrawal involving what could not be described as conditions. The happy substitute that emerged was the word assumptions. On Feb. 11 John Foster Dulles handed Israel's Ambassador Abba Eban an aide-memoire. As soon as Israel pulled out, Dulles said, the U.S. would 1) itself proclaim the right of innocent passage in the Gulf of Aqaba, and 2) support U.N. action to ensure that the Gaza Strip would not again be used as a base for guerrilla raids...
...poverty of its people. The Eisenhower Administration pinned its hopes on him as the keystone of its new Middle East policy, backed his development programs with grants of $26 million, helped him lever the 80,000 troops of the British, grumbling, out of Suez. The U.S. sent as ambassador to Cairo a young West Pointer, Henry Byroade, who understood and liked Nasser as a fellow soldier. "Egypt stands today in every respect with the West," said Nasser, and Byroade sent back to Washington sympathetic and admiring reports. Even the Israelis considered Nasser the most progressive of Arab leaders, nursed...
Half a world apart, two new U.S. envoys observed similar diplomatic traditions in their first official meetings with heads of state. In London U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's John Hay Whitney, just short of 60 years after his grandfather John Hay took over the post, hied himself to Buckingham Palace, there presented his credentials to Queen Elizabeth II. Noting that officials of the U.S. embassy have been criticized for concentrating on London to the rest of the country's loss, London's Daily Telegraph hoped that "Jock" Whitney, a millionaire with a real...