Word: ambassadored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Oliver Franks, Britain's keen, contemplative Ambassador to the U.S., is first of all a professor of moral philosophy, secondly a diplomat. He did such a good job of prodding Western Europe into uniting under the Marshall Plan that Britain allowed him only a short tour as provost of Oxford's Queen's College before drafting him for Washington duty last...
...Sacred Cow (once President Truman's personal plane) landed in Athens. Out stepped Secretary of State George Marshall, who had left his wearisome business in Paris to have a look into the even more wearisome business of Greece. Assembled to greet him, plainly a little embarrassed, were U.S. Ambassador Henry F. Grady, U.S. General James A. Van Fleet and Greek Premier Themistocles Sophoulis (who wore dark glasses despite the day's grey overcast). The Premier remarked that Greece's fate rested in George Marshall's strong hands. He might have added that these hands were...
...sour Greek officers-for talks with the U.S. staff. To correspondents, U.S. officers explained that no decisive action was possible this year because winter had already come to the mountains in northern Greece. All that could be done was to contain the guerrillas, and prepare a spring offensive. Remarked Ambassador Grady: "The situation ... is not completely satisfactory...
Shopman Douglas, 20, pretty blonde daughter of the U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, was keeping company in London with one of the realm's most eligible nobles: the Marquess of Blandford, 22. They were seen together at dinner, at dancing, and over afternoon milkshakes at the embassy canteen. They were seen together at the movies (where a photographer snapped them seated next to Clement Attlee's son Martin-see cut). What excited the gossips was the hint of a triangle: the tall young Guardsman was supposed to have another girl-Princess Margaret...
Born. To Maria del Rosario Cayetana, Duchess of Montoro, 22, only child of the 17th Duke, of Alba (Spain's top nobleman and ex-Ambassador to Britain) whose wedding last October cost $300,000' and Don Luis Martinez de Irujo y Artazoz 27, blueblooded onetime able seaman in Franco's navy: their first child, a son; in Madrid