Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...THOSE perplexing Argentines," U.S. -Ambassador James Bruce cried when he returned from Buenos Aires in 1949. The Argentines love soccer, bathtubs, the opera and gastronomy (even for a pretty senorita their customary compliment is: "What a pudding!"). They will not stand for traffic lights, and their stately capital has none. For a flamboyant decade the proud and cultured Argentines were ruled by a wastrel dictator. Now the bill has been presented, and a grim-lipped general who prizes honor and uprightness is struggling to repay the account. See HEMISPHERE, The Rocky Road Back...
...Heard from the State Department that Nationalist China's Ambassador Hollington K. Tong had delivered the Chiang Kai-shek government's "profoundest regrets" for an ugly incident in Taipei, Formosa: a mob. angered by a U.S. Army court-martial's acquittal of a G.I. charged with voluntary manslaughter of a Chinese, stormed into the U.S. embassy and injured at least nine U.S. citizens (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...Then the real riot started. One demonstrator climbed the flagpole, ripped down the U.S. flag. "Good, good," cried an elderly Chinese greybeard. Bolder rioters stormed into the embassy compound; on their heels came a frenzied mob. The rioters crashed into the embassy building itself, shouting, sacking and destroying. U.S. Ambassador Karl Rankin's safe was hurled out of a second-floor window onto the roof of his Cadillac. Desks, Venetian blinds, papers, files and other office equipment fell in a hail from the embassy window. Secret files and papers were strewn about like wastepaper. Some of the rioters shouted...
...Japanese government ordered its ambassador in London to file an expression of "strong regret" with the British, not forgetting to mention that Tokyo reserved full right to claim damages for any Japanese fishermen who may have been near by. Actually, the British testing area is twice as far from Japan as Bikini, but this did not stop thousands of Japanese students from rioting outside the British embassy in Tokyo...
Joseph H. Choate, the American Ambassador to England said that he had learned a great lesson from the contest--that two nations could oppose each other and fight it out to the bitter end, and yet remain good friends...