Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Munnich gives Hungarians little to look forward to. A founder of Hungary's Communist Party and long a resident of Russia (he holds both Hungarian and Russian citizenship), he has been a stolid Moscow servant for decades. As Hungary's postwar ambassador to Finland, Bulgaria, Russia and Yugoslavia, he avoided involvement with the dangerous infighting inside the party, concentrated on Tokay wines, women and his rose garden...
...might be overwhelmed in such exchanges. "My dear fellow," he assured a visitor, "there is great power in Buddhist thought. Our impact is much greater than our size would suggest." As proof, Banda cites the fact that the Buddhist scholar he sent to Moscow as Ceylon's first ambassador "is very much in demand at Moscow and other universities for lectures." The ambassador has just returned to reveal to his countrymen that crime no longer exists in the Soviet Union...
...State Department let it be known that Ambassador John Moore Allison would soon be transferred from crisis-tangled Indonesia to the U.S. embassy in Prague. Official version: the U.S. needs an able, realistic man in Communist Czechoslovakia to succeed able, realistic U.S. Ambassador U. Alexis Johnson, who has met Red China negotiators in 73 face-to-face sessions, will now move on to Thailand. Washington scuttlebutt: John Allison, 52, seasoned Far East hand and strong antiCommunist, offended Indonesia's sensitive nationalists, came under false but telling attack in Indonesia's Communist press on charges of plotting to overthrow...
...three major presidential candidates got a clear majority. This left it to Congress, still controlled by Castillo Armas' M.D.N. party, to choose between the two front runners. Unofficial returns gave Rightist General Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes 177,198 votes, M.D.N, Candidate Colonel Jose Luis Cruz Salazar, former Ambassador to Washington, 132,087, and the leftist Revolutionary Party candidate, Mario Mendez Montenegro...
Died. Claude Gernade Bowers, 79, New Deal diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Spain (1933-39) and Chile (1939-53), old-time newspaper editorial writer (New York World), onetime (1928) eloquent Democratic National Convention keynoter, historian (Jefferson and Hamilton) and cultural sentimentalist (The Spanish Adventures of Washington Irving), whose Spanish memoirs (My Mission to Spain) blamed Western democracies' Red mirages for dumping the Spanish republic into Fascist hands; in Manhattan...