Word: ambassadored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Valpey, terming the loss of Nelson "a terrific blow," starts looking for a replacement today. "Davey knows the single wing inside and out," commented Art last night. "He's an all-around gentleman and has been a good ambassador for Harvard...
Last week the harried Chinese government, through its Washington ambassador, V. K. Wellington Koo, offered a proposal of its own. If the U.S. would agree, the Chinese government would forgo some of the ECA aid already appropriated, in order to have $500,000 worth applied to the education bills of its stranded scholars. That would at least get them through next June's final exams...
...Secretary, he had been away from his desk more than 200 days. The new Secretary, Dean Acheson, wanted to keep his toothbrush and razor at home. Last week, at his urging, President Truman nominated Philip C. (for Caryl) Jessup, 52, to be the nation's first official ambassador-at-large,* and the nation's $25,000-a-year representative at diplomatic meetings at home and abroad...
Flowing Hope. Its success, witness after witness asserted, could not, and should not be measured in economic terms alone. The impact of EGA, said Secretary Acheson, had altered "the political atmosphere of an entire continent." Added W. Averell Harriman, ECA's European ambassador: "Hope, and the will to resist tyranny, were ebbing in Europe in 1947. They are flowing again today. It is this-the will to live as free men and to go forward toward a future which, while it cannot be precisely foreseen, can yet be believed in-which has arrested the spread of reactionary Communist aggression...
...next day, Roland said plenty -but not about the correspondence. "If the Dominicans are your enemies," he slyly demanded, "withdraw your ambassador and declare war." At 8 p.m., the Haitian government answered "that loathsome beast" by announcing that it had already recalled its ambassador. But Roland was hardly satisfied. The following afternoon he sneeringly challenged the Haitians: "I give you a rendezvous at the border, gentlemen, which I know you will not dare to keep, cowards that...