Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...users' plan of the Western powers seemed truly to catch Nasser unawares. "Instead of continuing the game," the tennis-playing young dictator complained to a friend, "Eden has picked up the ball and walked off the court." In uncharacteristic haste Nasser ordered his Washington ambassador to protest to John Foster Dulles that the plan "means war"-just as Dulles was about to explain to his press conference that that was precisely what it did not mean. Then, in his first important-if insufficient-shift toward compromise, Nasser let it be known through the Indian government that he would...
Before the roundup was over, a phone jangled furiously in the Rabat bedroom of André Dubois, France's tall, elegant Ambassador to Morocco. When Dubois picked up the receiver a Frenchman serving with the Moroccan police excitedly reported that the newly independent Moroccan government was rounding up more than 50 members and alleged sympathizers of Présence Française, the organization of diehard colons who cannot reconcile themselves to Moroccan independence. A week earlier Moroccan police had discovered that Présence Française was circulating leaflets which urged Morocco's Berber minority...
Within minutes after he got the news. Ambassador Dubois was on the phone to Moroccan Premier Si Bekkai, delivering an angry protest. Dubois was not overly disturbed by the decision to deport the troublemaking colons. (One of the deportees, a former Présence Française president named Georges Causse, had been expelled from Morocco once before, by the French themselves, allowed to return by clemency of the Sultan.) The ambassador was, however, incensed at Si Bekkai's failure to live up to an agreement that the French embassy would be consulted on all matters involving French citizens...
...government made a slight concession: instead of being whisked off to France in the early morning as originally planned, the deportees were allowed to remain in Morocco till midafternoon to settle their affairs, then sped by air to Paris. Next day, with pointed timing, the Moroccan Foreign Office notified Ambassador Dubois that it planned to revoke a long-standing arrangement which allows French citizens to enter Morocco without a visa...
...CITY will be built on last big block of undeveloped land in Los Angeles metropolitan area. For sum in "excess of $10 million," Transamerica Corp. and Christiana Oil Corp. (headed by former U.S. Ambassador to Britain Lewis Douglas) have bought 8,000-acre Diamond Bar Ranch near Pomona, only 20 miles from downtown Los Angeles. Plan is for community of 100,000, with shopping centers, schools, churches, 30,000 homes in $15,000-to-$40,000 price range...