Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rebels, Allard's report offered Premier Félix Gaillard an excellent opportunity to play upon France's touchy national pride -the kind of opportunity he invariably seizes when he finds himself in domestic political difficulties. Last week, little more than 24 hours after the attack, French Ambassador to Tunisia Georges Gorse appeared at the Tunisian Foreign Ministry with a stiff note of protest demanding the return of the four captured Frenchmen...
...time he edited the speech of a rival politician by indicating with the muzzle of his pistol the lines to be deleted, he has slowly built up increasingly solid support for his policies. Nine months ago Khalil felt unable to sign up for U.S. aid when U.S. Special Ambassador James P. Richards offered it under the Eisenhower Doctrine. But last month he announced acceptance of U.S. technical aid under the U.S. Mutual Security Program. And the Sudan's cotton crop, which Khalil refused to mortgage to the Russians for arms, is now moving well on Western markets...
Details of the agreement, reached after months of talks in Washington, are not yet available. It is understood, however, that the Department plans to answer some 52 points of "people-to-people" exchange. Russian ambassador Georgi Zaroubin presented the exchange proposals in talks with Ambassador William E. Lacey last November...
COLONEL JOSE Luis CRUZ SALAZAR, 37, heir of Castillo Armas' middle-of-the-road Nationalist Democratic Movement (M.D.N.). A career army officer sent to Washington as Castillo Armas' ambassador, he is firmly in the U.S. camp. He has the support of the younger officers who carry most weight in the army, a strong point in his favor in case of opposition attempts to short-circuit a Cruz Salazar victory either before or after the fact. His slogan: "Neither left nor right...
...back up his argument, Newsman Sulzberger excerpted a letter to onetime NATO Commander in Chief Alfred Gruenther in which Belgium's NATO Ambassador Andre de Staercke chided the Western press for its "masochistic" tendency to see "just the weak points of our position." This attitude, said Veteran Diplomat de Staercke, is compounded by "lack of analysis, by sheer ignorance, by that kind of facility which makes bad news easier to believe than good news, or pessimism more secure than optimism...