Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paris last week, members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, having doggedly toured the neat Norman farm country and held long conferences with Premier Paul Ramadier and Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, relaxed at a party given by U.S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery. Over cocktails, one Senator's wife asked an English-speaking Frenchman...
...week's end, a tireless friend of Greece and U.S. Ambassador in Athens since 1944 stepped into one of the planes for a quick trip to Washington. Scholarly Lincoln MacVeagh had long ago traced on the flyleaf of his well-thumbed copy of Leninism, Joseph Stalin's treatise for revolutionaries, the dictum: "It is an essential task of a victorious revolution in one country to develop and support revolution in others." MacVeagh, who speaks ancient Greek with the fluency of a contemporary of Aristides, was not really surprised by anything he had seen in Greece...
...moment, Soviet Ambassador Dimitri Zhukov was still in Santiago, but many a Chilean thought he would not stay long. Two days after the Yugoslavs got the gate, his windows were peppered by machine-gun bullets from unknown attackers. Chile promptly expressed regret. The Soviet Union just as promptly called the shooting "a shocking infringement upon diplomatic immunity." González Videla was moving into the big time...
...Ambassador Lewis W. Douglas' wife, Peggy, who had long been trying to get a prefabricated house for the Douglas ranch back in Arizona, finally found just what she wanted, but she couldn't have it. She found it-marked "Made in U.S.A."-on a visit to a housing project in Birmingham, England...
Married. Maria del Rosario Cayetana, Duchess of Montoro, 21, dark-haired daughter of the Duke of Alba, enormously wealthy ex-Ambassador to Britain and one of the world's most formidably titled men -six times a duke, 18 times a count, twelve times a marquess, 15 times a grandee of Spain; and Luis Martinez Irujo y Artazcoz, 26, fourth son of the Duke of Sotomayor; in Seville...