Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Commissioned by the President to make an eight-nation, 18,000-mile goodwill trip across newly stirring Africa, Ike's No. 1 roving ambassador had landed at Rabat, Morocco's capital, a day earlier, and at once plunged into the person-to-person, handshake-and-smile campaign with which-on five previous overseas missions-he had won new friends for the U.S. from Manila to Guatemala. And already the trip was showing a policy profit. In private talks with Mohammed V, Sultan of Morocco, during which the two leaders discussed the future of U.S. bases in the country...
...Middle East situation, explained an Administration spokesman, was "very serious." Around Ike as he got down to talks with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Ambassador to the United Nations Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. the pressures of Israel v. the Arabs were piling up menacingly. On Israel's behalf, public pressures were spreading through Congress all the way up through Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and Minority Leader William Fife Knowland to the White House door. Ike had come back from Georgia to press his step-by-step program. His next move: talk it out with top Senators...
Israel and the U.S. could talk. The U.N.'s own tireless Dag Hammarskjold said he had got Egypt to agree to let the U.N. deploy into the Gaza Strip. The President received a letter from Israel's Ben-Gurion that was considered "constructive," whereupon Israel's Ambassador to the U.S..Abba Eban, flew back from Israel. Dulles held an unusual Sunday conference at his home with congressional leaders, then a few hours later met with Eban. and a new round of diplomacy got under way. But should Israel remain recalcitrant, the President of the U.S. intended...
Conant, who recently resigned as U.S. Ambassador to West Germany, will draw on his background as an educator and on his experiences in dealing with Russian Communist officials during his nearly four years in Germany...
Israeli's Foreign Minister Golda Meir and Ambassador Abba Eban met today with Dulles and French Foreign Minister Christian Pineau...