Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arab officialdom was more cautious. There was no vacuum, they maintained, that the Arab peoples could not fill. The Egyptians reaffirmed that they are cold war neutrals, that the only outside force they want in the Middle East is the U.N. In Washington, Syria's ambassador to the U.S., Farid Zeineddine, warned that no new U.S. moves into the Middle East could apply without "prior and explicit agreement" with the Arabs-which is a key provision of the U.S. plan...
...Refuted a surge of anti-American rumors in Paris to the effect that the U.S. cut off oil supplies to France at the height of the Suez crisis to signify disapproval of the Suez invasion. Declared U.S. Ambassador C. Douglas Dillon: "The truth is exactly the opposite," i.e., with normal French deliveries at 41,000 tons weekly, "in the second week of November U.S. shipments reached 212,000 tons." and by the first week in December had increased over twenty fold to 920,000 tons...
Rarely since John Adams set up the U.S.'s first ministry in London had a U.S. ambassador-designate faced more difficult diplomatic beginnings than John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, 52. In the bitter aftermath of Suez, Jock Whitney, nominated last week to succeed Ambassador Winthrop Aldrich, faces the awesome task of restoring full U.S.-British concord and confidence in a country split by a new sense of its own rights and wrongs, in which the U.S. is the most convenient scapegoat...
...State John Hay, and William Collins Whitney, a street-railway tycoon and multimillionaire. Thanks principally to Grandfather Whitney, Jock Whitney is endowed with a fortune of some $60 million (which will tide him through the London embassy's estimated excess expenditure of $50,000 a year above the ambassador's $27,500-a-year salary and allowances), but he has always managed to combine the graces of a patrician upbringing with shrewd common sense. Once he ordered his name expunged from the New York Social Register because he considered it "a travesty of democracy . . . with absurd notions...
...looking at the ancient mystery of guiltless suffering, as was shown last week by the remarkable story of one child. The story was told by the U.S. Sixth Fleet's Admiral Charles Brown, and it concerned the son of his old friend Jack Peurifoy, onetime (1950-53) U.S. Ambassador to Greece. The child's name was Clinton Peurifoy, and he was a spastic...