Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Douglas Dillon '31, U.S. Ambassador to France, has been appointed to the executive committee of the Program for Harvard College, President Pusey announced yesterday...
...moment when Soviet monsters were grinding out the sparks of freedom in mutilated Hungary, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas was smilingly shaking hands with the Soviet Ambassador to the U.S. at a celebration marking the anniversary of another occasion of Soviet brutality. Does that reflect favorably on the wisdom and judgment of a member of our most august and revered governmental institution...
Willing Scapegoat. In Washington, British Ambassador Sir Harold Caccia had a confidential dinner with selected Washington pundits at the home of the Washington Post and Times Herald's Chalmers Roberts. There he confidentially criticized Dulles, explained that if Britain had not consulted the U.S. about the invasion of Egypt, Dulles had not consulted Britain on canceling the offer to build Egypt's Aswan High Dam. (The facts: Britain got one day's advance warning that the U.S. was considering cancellation; in any event, Britain had long been urging the U.S. to get tough with Nasser...
Looking like an uneasy fugitive from a Frans Hals painting, U.S. Ambassador to West Germany James B. Conant, 63, dolled himself up in traditional Renaissance plumage, then proudly accepted an honorary Doctor of Natural Science degree from the University of Hamburg. Harvard's former Prexy Conant, whose sheepskins could cover a large flock, now boasts more than 40 honorary diplomas...
Free to speak frankly over Congress' perennial failure to cough up adequate funds for Foreign Service personnel, retiring U.S. Ambassador to Italy Clare Boothe Luce told a Manhattan audience that such legislative parsimony is "folly to the point of national suicide." Said Mrs. Luce: "When you think of the billions that we have spent abroad to prevent our own atomic annihilation, it seems folly to deny a comparatively small sum to the very service which is working hardest to prevent...