Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George Venable Allen, 44, one of the ablest of U.S. career diplomats, took on his toughest assignment last week. Fresh from a two-year stint as Ambassador to Iran, he was sworn in as Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs-i.e., chief of U.S. propaganda...
Next day, red-faced Arthur Vandenberg hastily withdrew the report, telephoned his personal apologies to Chinese Ambassador Wellington Koo and scribbled a statement of retraction...
Having spilled his political news, Henry went on talking, so swiftly that reporters had difficulty in following him. They got enough to make headlines out of one sensational charge: that Laurence Steinhardt, U.S. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia, had provoked Communist-action there by lending himself to a "rightist coup." When the reporters pressed him for details, Wallace suddenly remembered, that he "had to catch a train...
...Buying Them." The reaction to this unfounded, undocumented accusation was sharp and swift. Ambassador Steinhardt, who had been away from his post when the crisis began, cabled: "Henry Wallace appears to have been well briefed by his Communist associates." The State Department gave the official lie to Wallace. Said the New York Times: "We have a new standard for measuring just how valuable a contribution Mr. Wallace's presidential candidacy is now making to the ideology of international Communism...
Within the hour, Don Vicente had his toothpick-thin cook, La Maga (The Wizard), at work. By nightfall, he had sent a ten-liter container by air to Gilberto Bosques, Mexican ambassador in Lisbon, with instructions on how to give a mole banquet for leading Portuguese statesmen. Free samples also went to restaurants and hotels in the big cities of the world. Said Don Vicente: "No one who eats mole can think of war and death...