Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the last session of Congress, the two Oregonians Morsebergered such routine Northwest Democratic proposals as the federal high dam in Hells Canyon (aye) and such routine liberal stands as Scott McLeod's appointment as Ambassador to Ireland (nay). But on larger issues they were almost totally at issue. Neuberger favored the Eisenhower Doctrine, the Administration's budget requests, the civil rights bill. Fiery Wayne Morse opposed them all, testily told the folks back home that "Dick Neuberger was one of the Democratic liberals sucked in on the civil rights bill." Through the entire session, Neuberger more often...
...losers have all been banished to the sticks. That old Kremlin durable, Molotov, presented his credentials as Ambassador to Outer Mongolia last week, obviously aware that the world was enjoying his humiliation. But he was probably more concerned by the knowledge that another loser before him, Lev Kamenev, had for a time seemingly flourished as Soviet Ambassador to Italy, only to be executed a few years later by Stalin. Among Khrushchev's other victims, Dmitry Shepilov, who rose swiftly but guessed wrong, was reportedly schoolteaching; Kaganovich was said to be running a cement factory...
...diplomat who knew him well says that if Mikoyan had emigrated to the U.S. he would now be "heading his own export-import firm with a triplex apartment on Park Avenue." But ex-Ambassador Walter ("Beedle") Smith, less impressed, says, "Take away his ZIS limousine and Mikoyan would look like just another rug peddler in Shepheard's Hotel in Cairo...
...Muscat and Oman, eleven Arab states asked the U.N. Security Council to take up Britain's "armed aggression" in Oman, and Moscow joined in with a fevered blast against Britain's "inhuman methods of warfare against the peaceful population of Oman." Sir Harold Caccia, Britain's ambassador to Washington, called on John Foster Dulles to warn him that unless the U.S. supported Britain on Oman, it would be "almost as much a blow as Suez...
From S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike, Ceylon's Prime Minister, came the merest suggestion of a deadpan snicker. Newly appointed U.S. Ambassador to Ceylon Maxwell H. Gluck-the businessman who could not put his tongue to Bandaranaike's name nor pronounce Jawaharlal Nehru's when a Senate committee ambushed him (TIME, Aug. 12)-should not fret about his pronunciation difficulties, said the Prime Minister. Observed the Oxford-educated Bandaranaike dryly: "I can't pronounce his name either. I don't know whether it should be pronounced 'Click' or 'Gluck' [correct: Gluck]. I shouldn...