Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tommy, they got me this time," President Somoza said to U.S. Ambassador Thomas Whelan the night he was shot down. That remark recalls the one the President made when I told him I was retiring [in January 1945] as U.S. Ambassador to Nicaragua. It was early morning, and he was in his hammock being shaved. He turned his head and said: "Jeemmy, do you realize that in the two and one half years you have been in Managua I have not once said 'no' to you?" It was true. During those war years, I had made many requests...
...seem to impugn my own sincerity." By sending the note in the middle of an election campaign, he said, and especially by referring, by implication, to Stevenson's views on atomic testing, Bulganin had interfered in U.S. internal affairs in a way that, "if indulged in by an ambassador, would lead to his being declared persona non grata...
...Ichiro Kono, aging Hatoyama hobbled out of his plane at Moscow airport, smiled gratefully as white-bearded Premier Bulganin took him firmly by the arm to help him down. Hatoyama was obviously flattered by the imposing list of Soviet notables attending the conference: "Some of their biggest men," said Ambassador Matsumoto. The visits began with banquets too rich for Japanese stomachs ("Oh, if they'd only cut the servings in half," muttered Mrs. Hatoyama), accompanied by toasts to the glories of Japanese culture. But in the long private sessions with Khrushchev, neither water, tea nor cigarettes were provided...
...other Costa Rican. Seven out of her crew of ten were unregistered and looked as if they might be Algerians. After lengthy interrogation of captain and crew, the French triumphantly announced that the Athos had been loaded in Alexandria by uniformed Egyptian soldiers. The French government asked the Egyptian ambassador for an explanation...
...President Edvard Kardelj (a leader in Yugoslavia's 1948 quarrel with Stalin) as a "bourgeois diplomat." And to underscore Molotov's attitude towards Tito himself, a story was being told of a Peking reception at which Red China's Mao Tse-tung inquired of the Belgrade ambassador, "How is Tito?" and Molotov, standing near by, was heard to say, "That...