Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ambassador to Greece Lincoln MacVeagh headed home to report, Washington was in the midst of bitter debate. Harry Truman would need Marshall's considerable prestige to balance the practical and emotional arguments against his course. Questions came from left & right...
...Alternative. From the sands of Palm Beach, the New York Times's Arthur Krock reported the uneasiness of a group of men with whom he talked one night. Among them were Joseph P. Kennedy, onetime ambassador to Great Britain, and Bernard Baruch. They saw a U.S. foreign policy leading to prodigal spending, national bankruptcy and destruction of the very democratic system which the policy sought to protect. Kennedy doubted that such investments as Truman recommended would ever succeed in stopping Communism's spread. The poverty-stricken peoples of the world, he thought, were bound to try out Communism...
MacVeagh shared the Greek Government's exile after the Nazi conquest and (promoted to ambassador) shared in its tragic return. His reports, once prized for their wit, have recently been soberly serious. A philosophic democrat, MacVeagh has seen Greece, which gave the word democracy to the world, sick from within and under assault from without. To cure the inward sickness, MacVeagh holds emphatically, in his quiet voice and brilliantly phrased dispatches, that the U.S. must move in and virtually run the country to make its aid effective. Yet, with Byron, he has "dreamed that Greece might still be free...
Tension. Over in the Senate, the galleries were nearly empty. During the week, the Senate had managed to approve the appointment of Lewis W. Douglas as Ambassador to Britain, send the Military Merger Bill to the Armed Services Committee, vote OPA into oblivion (expiration date: June 30), and promise a cut of $4½ billion in the President's $37.5 billion budget. The Senators had also had to stew around while colleagues on both sides of the aisle belabored the Congressional Record with eulogies of William Randolph Hearst (see PRESS), editorials and letters from the folks at home. Gradually...
Into Lima last week flew special Argentine Ambassador Diego Luis Molinari, with seven gaudily uniformed granaderos de San Martin and some of South America's finest rhetoric. He was met by Argentine commercial technicians. Molinari and his grenadiers had already splashed grandiloquently through the halls and plazas of most of Latin America. Peruvians were impressed. Said Apra Chief Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre: "We need their wheat and meat." Perón has already promised Chile $175,000,000 to tie her to Argentina in bonds of trade. Bolivia's new Government got another...