Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Deep Freeze. The Chinese now insist that even India's consul in Lhasa carry an identity card. And India's once well-treated ambassador to Peking is now getting the deep-freeze treatment previously reserved for the out-of-favor Yugoslav ambassador...
...urged that the government, "by judicious means, use these diaries to prevent Casement from attaining martyrdom." His advice was followed. The diaries were shown to King George V, who was shocked at their degeneracy; so was the Archbishop of Canterbury. More to the point, they were shown to U.S. Ambassador Walter Hines Page with the casual remark by Prime Minister Asquith that he "need not be particular" about whom he might in turn show them to. Gradually the pro-Casement agitation in the U.S. began to die away, but the ghost that has haunted the case ever since...
...underdeveloped nations. So well has he handled the job that President Eisenhower last week nominated him for a post that will keep him away from Ohio even more: managing director of the two-year-old Development Loan Fund, to succeed Dempster Mclntosh, who resigned July 1 to become Ambassador to Colombia...
...U.S.S.R. might get together on a Big Two deal, the President made it clear at his special press conference last week that his discussions with Khrushchev would be "exploratory rather than any attempt at negotiation." At the NATO Council meeting in Paris, the U.S.'s NATO Ambassador Randolph Burgess assured the allies that the Eisenhower-Khrushchev meetings would not be a Big Two summit conference...
...first French Canadian ever to be appointed to the post. He is Major General George Philias Vanier, 71, a courtly soldier-diplomat whose family settled in Quebec in 1681. A World War I hero who lost a leg at the Cherisy campaign, Vanier was Canada's first Ambassador to France, has lived quietly in retirement since...