Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, in a calculated rebuke to Nasser, the U.S. joined the military committee of the anti-Communist Baghdad Pact, an organization against which Nasser has raged almost as unceasingly as have his Russian friends. By a design, Ike's special ambassador, ex-Congressman James P. Richards, is touring friendly Middle East lands first, explaining U.S. aid-without-strings, thereby increasing the isolation of Nasser and adding to the pressures against extremist regimes in Jordan and Syria...
...special session; there was talk of bringing the archbishop to some neutral city, perhaps Paris. The government announced it would make a statement on Cyprus and asked the Greek chargeé d'affaires, who has been discreetly ostracized since Greece's withdrawal of its ambassador a year ago, to meet Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd "in a few days or so." Driving out to meet Field Marshal Harding at the airport, Lennox-Boyd had a statement all prepared...
...month), wide-ranging (up to 18-nation) Mideast mission, Democrat James P. Richards, 62, longtime (23 years) South Carolina Congressman and former chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, who retired in January, was promptly named by Ike as a special adviser on Mideast affairs (TIME, Jan. 21). Ambassador Richards' job: "to remove misunderstandings" about the Eisenhower Doctrine in the Mideast, survey the military and economic needs of the nations that wish to share in its benefits, report to Ike on how the $200 million earmarked by the program for the development of the area should be allocated...
...Manila, filling the empty ambassador's post, Charles E. ("Chip") Bohlen, 52, Ambassador to Moscow since 1953, veteran (28 years) Foreign Service officer and a ranking Department Russian scholar with extensive service as interpreter and adviser at international conferences (e.g., Teheran, Yalta) before reaching his present rank. In the wake of President Magsaysay's death (see FOREIGN NEWS), troubleshooting Chip Bohlen's work in the Philippines seems...
...James J. Wadsworth. A onetime (1931-41) Republican member of the New York State legislature, Wadsworth, 51, served in a variety of federal executive posts (e.g., ECA, Civil Defense) before Ike appointed him to the U.N. in 1953, is a logical choice for the new job: at the U.N., Ambassador Wadsworth was the key U.S. negotiator in the talks that set up the agency...