Word: ambassadors
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Ability to Destroy. The line's most scholarly and most influential advocate is George Frost Kennan, 53, longtime student of the Soviet Union, top Truman State Department policy planner, author of the postwar containment policy, onetime Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1952), and currently a visiting professor at Oxford University...
Conant, former U.S. Ambassador to West Germany, will give his first lecture on Jan. 7; his topic will be "Free Germany Reviews Its Past." All of the talks will be given in Sanders Theatre and are scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. The second and third lectures in the Godkin series will be given...
...Imperial and Riverside counties, home after 37 years, was keeping his campaign promise to try to help improve U.S.-Indian relations. He lunched with Nehru, attended a parliamentary conference, met the populace in the streets and meeting halls. By far the most listened-to and most welcomed unofficial U.S. ambassador that India had ever seen, Saund turned in a performance that undoubtedly got closer to thousands of India's doubters than any official U.S. envoy before...
Furthermore, Good Will Ambassador Saund wove many a pungent political thread into his tapestry. Recalling an old Punjabi proverb, "Torn clothes should be stitched in time," he declared it is "inconceivable that two great democracies of the world-India and America-cannot understand each other while their objective is the same." The U.S. attitude on India's troubles with Pakistan, said Saund firmly, arises out of a realization of Russia's domination in Eastern Europe: "Aid to Pakistan was only part of an overall military strategy-against international Communism-given after carefully weighing all the facts of life...
Encouraged by his success at the furnace and by the Italian authorities, Francesco tried even bolder schemes. He took wax impressions of embassy keys, pilfered papers from the ambassador's safe, had them photographed and securely back in place before anyone noticed. Once, on duty as night custodian of the building, he removed an entire 24-volume set of official British code books, took them over to his Italian contact, smoked and drank in nervous anxiety for seven hours while they were being photographed, and had them back safe in the morning. That, Costantini did admit...