Word: ambassadored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Flushing Meadow the Chilean delegate rose last week in the U.N. Assembly session to take up a family tragedy. For 28 months, said Hernan Santa Cruz, young Alvaro Cruz, son of a former Chilean ambassador at Moscow, had been trying to take his Russian-born wife back to Chile (TIME, Nov. 17, 1947). The Russians had stubbornly refused to let her leave. Close to a thousand U.S., British and French husbands who had married Russian girls, said Santa Cruz, were in the same predicament. The Soviet decree forbidding Russian women married to foreigners to leave the country was a moral...
With the Communists silenced and Peronistas taking it easy, Romualdi attacked hemispheric military dictatorships. He brought out letters, documents, underground newspapers and lists of prisoners as evidence that military regimes in both Peru and Venezuela had jailed workers and smashed unions. Under pressure of U.S. Government delegates, headed by Ambassador to Uruguay Ellis O. Briggs, he withheld a resolution of condemnation, but got through a statement demanding I.L.O. investigations in Peru and Venezuela...
Tailor-Made. While he looked for good men for the jobs at home, Harry Truman succeeded last week in filling two tough diplomatic posts abroad with men practically tailor-made to his specifications. To succeed Lieut. General Walter Bedell Smith as ambassador to Moscow, the President wanted someone who would not run wild with ideas of his own, could be depended on to execute instructions to the letter, and to maintain the tough U.S. military front that seems best understood in Moscow. The man he picked is poker-faced, tough Vice Admiral Alan Goodrich Kirk...
...replace punctilious career diplomat Jefferson Caffery, 63, as ambassador to France, Truman and Secretary of State Dean Acheson wanted a man who was enough of an economist to keep abreast of French financial crises, enough of a diplomat to help Western Europe toward unity. For this job Truman picked David K. E. Bruce, chief of the Economic Cooperation Administration mission in France, a lawyer and Virginia gentleman farmer. Bruce learned economics managing Mellon interests (his first wife was Andy Mellon's only daughter, Ailsa), later took a postgraduate course as Assistant Secretary of Commerce. To succeed Bruce...
...next meeting between Phillip C. Jessup, U. S. Ambassador-at-large, and Jakob A. Malik, Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister, will be called when one or the other party picks up a phone and says "lot's meet," but no one knows which party is going to do that, the spokesman said...