Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Clare Boothe Luce stepped off the Italian liner Andrea Doria in April, 1953 to become U.S. ambassador to Italy, she walked into a nation in crisis. The Italian national elections were just coming up. Communists and monarchists were closing in from left and right on the teetering Christian Democratic government of Premier Alcide de Gasperi. The Communist daily L'Unita, eager to slander the U.S., hooted at her as a "comicopera ambassador." A rightist magazine hailed her arrival with a full-page cartoon of an American flag trimmed with lace. Last week when Clare Luce, 53, resigned...
...ambassador, Clare Luce began with a background as journalist, playwright and Congresswoman. Many skilled U.S. diplomats considered her experience insufficient for the Italy of 1953. They thought their doubts justified when Clare Luce, upon her arrival in Italy, warned of the "grave consequences" that might follow if Italian voters "should fall unhappy victims to the wiles of totalitarianism of the right or left." The wisdom of this apparent interference in Italian domestic politics is still hotly debated, although no one yet has been able to demonstrate that it did any harm...
...third of its government expenditures. At the moment France is its closest ally, linked by equal dislike of the Arabs. Israel has most stable and most democratic government in the area, a victory-flushed army probably capable of defeating all Arab nations together. Last week, having withdrawn their ambassador, the Russians sent Israel a stiff note questioning its "existence" as a state. Without formal allies, Israel now finds it necessary to stand as close...
...aside old blood feuds, Iraq's young King Feisal and his cousin, Jordan's Hussein, Hashemites both, addressed Saud respectfully as "Father." Syria's President Shukri el Kuwatly was on hand, freshly back from a visit to Moscow. In this impressive panoply, only Nasser's Ambassador to Lebanon was on hand to speak for Egypt...
...flood tide of criticism began to subside, ex-Ambassador Joseph Grew, RFE's boss (as chairman of Free Europe Committee, Inc.), angrily fired off a statement charging: "It is an insult to the brave Hungarian people to suggest that they have responded to any other influence than their innate love of liberty...