Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Former Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy's suggestion [TIME, March 24] that we permit Communism to spread throughout Europe is ridiculous...
...Easter Sunday, at the Government-sponsored unveiling of a plaque in Strasbourg Cathedral to the American dead in Alsace, De Gaulle appeared as hero. Thousands jammed the rainswept streets to cry "De Gaulle au pouvoir!" (De Gaulle to power!). In the presence of U.S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery, De Gaulle said: "If a new tyranny should ever menace all or part of the world, we may be certain that the U.S. and France would be together to oppose...
...month ago Arthur Bliss Lane returned to the U.S. from the hardest assignment of his 31 years in the Foreign Service. As Ambassador to the Russian-dominated government of Poland he could remember little but frustration. So that he would be free to speak as a private citizen on Poland's "tragedy," tired Arthur Lane resigned. Last week Harry Truman picked his successor. Warsaw was in for something. The new Ambassador will be 59-year-old Stanton Griffis...
Back in Lima last month after a Colombian tour, 24-year-old Conchita, a slim, trim blonde with unforgettably cold blue eyes, was the talk and toast of the Peruvian capital. U.S. Ambassador Prentice Cooper stopped her on the street, introduced himself, gladly shook her tiny, calloused hand. Twice she fought in the ring-and brilliantly. She might have appeared oftener (at her usual $12,000 fee), but she was annoyed that Lima's new 30,000-seat bull ring, for which she laid the first stone three years ago, was still unfinished...
Bernard Baruch, who has been photographed a lot in his 76 years, posed with Herman Baruch, 74, who has not done much posing, but who obviously should have (see cut). The splendidly dressed occasion: Brother Herman's oath-taking in Washington as new U.S. Ambassador to The Netherlands...