Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Atomic Retaliation. All day Washington waited word, with U.S. armed forces from the Mediterranean to the China Sea alerted for whatever the Russians might choose. As tension mounted. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. called from U.N. headquarters in Manhattan to propose that the President prepare dramatic measures. Soon a new strategy was under consideration in the White House: the President might fly to New York to appear before the U.N. General Assembly, to assure the U.N. that U.S. troops were available and ready to stop any Russian incursion. Meanwhile, the U.S. had reassured the jittery French and British through NATO...
...Received Indian Ambassador G. L. Mehta to discuss next month's visit to this country of Prime Minister Nehru...
...Delhi: John Sherman Cooper's post, vacant since Cooper resigned to run for the Senate, will be taken by Ellsworth Bunker, retiring American National Red Cross president* and a topnotch ambassador to Italy and Argentina under Harry Truman...
...announcement was to throw the 1958 Maine G.O.P. senatorial race wide open. Old Guard Owen Brewster, 67. who has been angling unsuccessfully for a federal job since 1952, was a possibility-an idea that brought shudders to liberal Republicans. Other possibilities: ex-Governor Horace A. Hildreth, 53, now U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan; University of Maine President Arthur Hauck, 63, a staunch Eisenhower supporter; and Congressman Clifford Mclntire, the only Republican Representative from Maine to be re-elected by a comfortable margin this year (one was defeated, one squeaked through). Whoever gets the nomination will probably have to go up against...
...anarchy after Britain's failure to negotiate a fair Anglo-Iranian oil deal. A weepy Mossadegh (TIME, Jan. 7, 1952) tried to rule from a hospital cot, and Iran was in danger of a Communist coup. That danger is safely past. Iran's Premier is a former ambassador to, and a good friend of, the U.S. The 37-year-old Shah now has firm control of his country, and on a recent trip to Moscow ably defended his country's membership in the anti-Communist Baghdad Pact. Americans help train the army, advise many government departments. Iran...