Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kentucky, the G.O.P. picked up one of the two Senate seats at stake this fall when John Sherman Cooper, 55, former Ambassador to India, defeated former Governor Lawrence W. Wetherby handily in their battle for the remainder of Alben Barkley's term. In the second race, where the traditional Democratic edge also had been whittled by campaign-year squabbles within the party's ranks, ex-Governor Earle C. Clements hung to an uncomfortably narrow lead over Republican Thruston B. Morton...
...advance; the U.S. did not. Eleven hours before the first Israeli vehicle rolled across the Egyptian border, Pineau dashed over to London. To an aide who asked whether there would be a war, Pineau was reported as saying: "I can't tell you yet." In Jerusalem, Britain's Ambassador Sir John Nicholls was told that morning that the Israeli army would jump off at nightfall, and relayed the news to Eden. Eden said nothing to the U.S. In Washington, knowing only of the Israeli mobilization, Eisenhower announced that the U.S. would "honor our pledge" under the Tripartite Agreement...
...soon became apparent that the British were not interested either in halting the Israeli attack or in branding the Israelis as aggressors. In London, Lloyd summoned U.S. Ambassador Winthrop Aldrich early Tuesday morning to urge that the U.S. resolution omit any reference to aggression. Significantly, though Britain and France were going to deliver an ultimatum to Egypt that day, Lloyd said nothing to Aldrich about Britain's intent...
Four years ago Ben-Gurion wrote in his best Biblical style: "Ahead of us are the campaigns and the conquests, the splendors and the portents still to come." As Gaza fell last week, Israel's Ambassador to Britain Eliahu Elath announced that his country had no designs on Egyptian territory. But he added: "Nobody can expect us to lose a military advantage...
...continue holding down the premiership, new Premier Nagy was forced to yield to the pressures of the new parties, to promise free elections, to acclaim neutrality, and, above all, to insist that the Russian troops be withdrawn, not only from Budapest, but from Hungary. Thus he called in Soviet Ambassador Yuri Andropov, renounced Hungary's membership in the Warsaw Pact, and put his case to the United Nations. His first Cabinet was made up of Communists, with four exceptions. At week's end there were only three Communists, including himself, in the government; the Cabinet portfolios were distributed...