Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hungary, the darkest arm of the crisis, the President's best advocate was the Red army, whose conduct provoked violent anti-Communist reaction from El Salvador to Saigon (see FOREIGN NEWS). In the U.N. General Assembly, U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. pressed hard for withdrawal of Soviet troops and a U.N. investigation, won a 50-8 approval. Aware that he could not help the rebels militarily without increasing the threat of a bigger war, the President ordered, as a heartfelt gesture, that 5,000 Hungarian refugees be admitted to the U.S. without regard to the niceties...
...Accepted the diplomatic credentials of incoming British Ambassador Sir Harold Caccia...
David Rockefeller '36, a member of the Board of Overseers, will probably be the next U.S. Ambassador to France, replacing Douglas Dillon '31, the Boston Globe reported yesterday...
...addition to these, Pusey has appointed the following men to an advisory committee of Harvard alumni: Winthrop W. Aldrich '07, U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain; Larid Bell '04, Chicago lawyer; Walter S. Gifford '05, honorary chairman of the board of American Telephone and Telegraph Company; Joseph C. Grew '02, former U.S. Ambassador to Japan; Learned Hand '93, former judge, U.S. Circuit Court, New York; John Lord O'Brian '96, Washington lawyer; and Eliot Wadsworth '98, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury...
Died. Walter Evans Edge, 82, off-and-on (1917-19, 1944-47) Republican governor of New Jersey, who served between terms as U.S. Senator (1919-29) and Ambassador to France (1929-33), gained respect as an early G.O.P. internationalist; in Manhattan...