Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Maxwell Gluck, Ambassador-designate to Ceylon, who "brought glee to Democrats, made Republicans glower when he admitted that he could not "call off" the name of Ceylon's Prime Minister Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike (TIME, Aug. 12). Said Dulles of this incident: "Now, the question of the selection of any particular person depends primarily upon whether he has integrity of character, whether he has a sharp and quick intelligence, and whether he is genuinely devoted to the public service. We believe that out of those three qualities can be made a competent and efficient ambassador worthy to represent...
...towering (6 ft. 5 in.) Ambassador Smith left the building, he waved to the women, who broke into the Cuban national anthem. Banners appeared, reading: "Stop supplies of arms to Batista." Police ripped the banners from their bearers. Later, obviously shaken by the police brutality, Smith issued a public statement: "I deeply regret that my presence in Santiago de Cuba may have been the cause of public demonstrations." But, requesting the release of those arrested, he added: "Any form of excessive police action is abhorrent...
...Batista, criticizing the police was the same as supporting the rebels. The official press accused the ambassador of "meddling in Cuba's internal affairs." SMITH GO HOME! shrieked one headline...
Batista's nervous alarm at Smith's tour was a mark of the dictator's slipping strength. Santiago, Cuba's second city, is increasingly rebellious. The day of Ambassador Smith's visit a crowd of 50,000 went to the funeral of a rebel colonel killed by the Santiago police. The colonel's body was clothed in his military uniform and his casket decked with the rebel flag of Castro's 26th of July Movement. Showing their strength, the guerrilleros swept down from their mountain hideout and attacked military posts at Bueycito...
Died. Walter Franklin George, 79, patriarchal "Senator's Senator," recent compelling voice for American bipartisan foreign policy. Democratic Senator from Georgia from 1922 to 1956, when President Eisenhower made him U.S. Ambassador to NATO; of a heart ailment; in home-town Vienna, Ga. Born on a poor Georgia farm, George rose from a Georgia lawyer to associate justice on the State Supreme Court. Elected to the Senate, George began serving (1926) on the tax-writing Finance Committee, soon was recognized as the Chamber's tax expert. He fought off Franklin Roosevelt's 1938 attempt to dump...