Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jordan against the King, he could stop them by threatening to call in the Iraqis. But Israel, which wants no powerful Arab neighbor at its back door, has often warned that its army will enter Jordan whenever Iraqi soldiers do. On his return to Amman. Hussein summoned U.S. Ambassador Mallory to his hilltop palace. The King wanted the U.S. to exert all its influence to keep the Israelis out. Hussein also phoned King Saud. urging him to press Egypt and Syria to abate their inflammatory broadcasts about events in Jordan. That evening the Palestinians were told that the King...
...Nablus to compose what amounted to an ultimatum. They demanded: 1) release and reinstatement of all pro-Nasser officers, including Abu Nuwar; 2) dismissal of Hussein's new Cabinet; 3) sacking of Hussein's Court Minister; 4) a promise not to invite to Jordan Roving Ambassador James Richards, President Eisenhower's special representative in the Middle East; and 5) expulsion of U.S. Ambassador Lester Mallory...
...Answer Needed. The chief effect of Moscow's guided missive was one the Russians probably had not foreseen. The day after the note was made public, West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer called in Soviet Ambassador Andrei Smirnov and spent two hours discussing it with him. What was all that talk of a demilitarized Germany and a German withdrawal from NATO? How, demanded Adenauer, did this square with suggestions to West Germany that, even without sacrificing her ties with the West, she might hope to enjoy "the spirit of Rapallo" (the Russo-Germany treaty...
...point Nasser was adamant: the canal would be run exclusively by Nasser's Suez Canal authority, with no advice from anyone. But after weeks of talk in Cairo between Fawzi and U.S. Ambassador Raymond A. Hare, Nasser had gone a considerable way toward meeting the user nations' demands for protection against abuses. His willingness to accept arbitration and the compulsory jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice, his volunteered limitation of toll increases, his undertaking to maintain and improve the canal in accordance with the old company's plans, and his acknowledgement of the old company...
Married. Harrison Freeman ("Doc") Matthews. 57, U.S. Ambassador to The Netherlands (awaiting reassignment in June), one of the U.S.'s four original "five-star diplomats"* and a 33-year career veteran; and Helen J. Skouland, 58. career member of the Foreign Service; both for the second time; in Zurich...