Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shrewd, good-humored James Prioleau Richards, special ambassador and onetime (1933-56) South Carolina Congressman, charged by the President with explaining the Eisenhower Doctrine to the Mideast governments, got a sudden change in signals last week. While Richards was in Greece, the word came through from the White House: Come Home...
Eleven Approvals. The reason was evident. As Dick Richards ticked off success after success on his tour, Cairo and Moscow propagandists howled that both doctrine and its ambassador were the very embodiment of U.S. "colonialism," and King Hussein could not be expected to counter this impression among Jordanians in a week...
...effect has been to isolate Egypt and Syria-whose fulminations against the doctrine were capped by their refusal to discuss it with Ambassador Richards-from their neighbors. More important, by the Richards mission the U.S. has set up a shield between the Middle East and Russia. Editorialized the New York Times: "The widespread acceptance [of the plan] has converted it from a unilateral American declaration . . . into a multilateral alignment which . . . rests on a common policy of defense against Communism...
...Ambassador Richards read his comeback orders, Washington flashed a new order to the Sixth Fleet. From the Pentagon to Fleet Commander Charles Randall Brown went the word: Mission accomplished; withdraw to the Central Mediterranean. Within hours "Cat" Brown and some 30 of his warships-including the giant carrier Forrestal-had pivoted hard west and were headed for Italian waters, where they will join in NATO exercises this week...
...first career ambassadors (others: Deputy Under Secretary of State Robert Murphy, Deputy Under Secretary of State for Administration Loy W. Henderson, Ambassador to Brazil James Clement Dunn), Foreign Service equivalents of five-star generals, were sworn in a year...