Word: ambassador
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...since the late Senator Joe McCarthy's virulent attack on Brigadier General Ralph Zwicker* had the nation witnessed such a bitter and protracted personal assault by a member of Congress. Last week, in the memorable clash of the Senator v. the Ambassador, a presidential mission was compromised, and from the floor of the Senate reckless charges were cast against the integrity of U.S. diplomatic policy. Chief figures in the Page One drama...
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE, 56, playwright (The Women, Margin for Error), wife of Editor in Chief Henry R. Luce of TIME, LIFE and FORTUNE, sometime G.O.P. Congresswoman from Connecticut (1943-47) and Ambassador to Italy (1953-57), who was nominated by President Eisenhower in late February to be Ambassador to Brazil...
Switching to Italy, Morse accused the witness of having used her influence as U.S. ambassador to try to get the Italian government to change its oil policy and let private capital into oil exploration and development. Said Mrs. Luce: "I was the instrument of my country's policy. I had no private policy of my own, and certainly I had no oil policy of my own ... I tried, as my predecessor had tried ... to persuade the Italians that they would be far better off if they would develop their own subsoil riches, and that this could be most quickly...
Morse accused her of "instability" and of many other things, culminating in "sinister subversion." Her nomination was a "horrendous mistake," and to send her to Rio would be "utter folly." He charged her with "extreme partisanship" as Ambassador to Italy. He attacked her "relationship to TIME, LIFE and FORTUNE," declaimed about the "intertwining of Luce policy and Eisenhower policy in conducting the vital affairs of the U.S." Morse even suggested that a TIME story quoting an anonymous U.S. official's rueful jest about dividing up Bolivia-a quote in TIME'S Latin American edition that was used...
...comedy done, the Senate finally-after a debate that took up some 65,000 words in the Congressional Record-got around to confirming Clare Luce as Ambassador to Brazil. The vote: a lopsided 79 (33 Republicans, 46 Democrats) to 11 (all Democrats...