Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reporting to Washington to replace Sir Roger Makins as British Ambassador...
...Control Commission in Italy, then, in 1944, troubleshooter in liberated Greece. After the war, he helped reorganize Britain's Foreign Service in line with "Eden Reforms," then got plenty of experience wrangling with the Russians when he was sent to Vienna, in 1949, first as minister, later as ambassador and high commissioner. Since 1954, he has been a Deputy Under Secretary of State in the Foreign Office, accompanying successive Foreign Secretaries and Prime Ministers to major conferences abroad, e.g., Geneva, Washington, Bangkok...
...York Lawyer Thomas E. Dewey, 54, twice (1944, 1948) G.O.P. nominee for President, proved administrator in his twelve years as governor of New York, still very much a power in the G.O.P. ¶ Ambassador to the United Nations Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., 54, well schooled in the ways of diplomacy by his day-by-day, hour-by-hour conduct of U.S. affairr in the U.N., well grounded in the ways of Washington by his twelve years as Republican Senator from Massachusetts...
...Wells Ballet Company called off its scheduled trip to Moscow. "Gabriel," chief political cartoonist of the London Daily Worker for 20 years, quit in disgust. The Oxford University Communist Club met and voted unanimously to dissolve. At a diplomatic party at Buckingham Palace, the Queen nodded stiffly to Soviet Ambassador Jacob Malik and moved on without a word, followed by an equally rigid and unsmiling Queen Mother and Princess Margaret...
Quiet Toughness. Late Wednesday David Ben-Gurion got a personal message from President Eisenhower. Its gist, as relayed by Israeli Ambassador Abba Eban, was that the U.S. had reached a stern decision: unless Ben-Gurion backed down and agreed to retreat from the Sinai peninsula as the United Nations asked, he could not expect any U.S. aid in the event of a Soviet attack. The White House had already made clear to Paris and London that the U.S. did not conceive its NATO commitment to include the Middle East or Cyprus if the Anglo-French persisted in their...