Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tense hours one day last week, official Washington hung breathlessly on the march of events in the powder-keg Middle East, not knowing whether the U.S. would or would not be in a shooting war with Russian "volunteers" within the next 48 hours. Diplomatic dispatches from U.S. Ambassador to Russia Charles E. Bohlen and press reports from U.S. correspondents in Moscow added up to a tentative conclusion: the Russians had decided to move their "volunteers" at least into Syria and possibly into Egypt, to stake out the Red army's first foothold in the Middle East. U.S. intelligence added...
...Russians were feeling out the U.S. position, reacted coolly. With no undertone of provocation, he told his weekly press conference quietly that it would become the duty of the members of the U.N., which would include the U.S., "to oppose" the Russian volunteers. Privately he flashed a cable to Ambassador Bohlen instructing him to make absolutely sure that the Kremlin did not misunderstand U.S. intentions: if the Russians moved troops into the Middle East the U.S. would oppose them with arms. At an emergency meeting of the National Security Council that morning the President heard out the reports...
Cambridge's Court Jestor, City Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci has apparently stripped John W. Teele '27, Harvard's Ambassador to Cambridge, of his diplomatic papers...
From the British and French ambassadors in Jerusalem came word that the U.S. had informed their countries that it "would not feel compelled to take action" in case of a Soviet attack on their Suez and Cyprus forces. Accordingly, they told Ben-Gurion they could promise him no support if he insisted on holding Sinai. From Washington Ambassador Abba Eban telephoned urging moderation and reporting that President Eisenhower was sending a personal message asking the Prime Minister to back down so as to give the Russians no pretext for intervention...
...real pressures came from outside: from U.S. Ambassador Douglas Dillon calling three times during the week to urge the Premier to heed President Eisenhower's advice for a ceasefire. And they came from Anthony Eden, who by telephone from London asked Mollet for a joint cease-fire-and by midnight. Mollet wanted the cease-fire delayed for 36 hours, so that allied forces could take the whole Suez Canal. Eden refused. How about an extra 24 hours? No. Twelve hours? No. Six hours? Impossible, replied Eden. Mollet turned back to his ministers and shrugged...