Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lieutenant commander, and returned to Dillon, Read as chairman of the board. An active Republican, Dillon was elected to the New Jersey Republican State Committee. In 1951 he helped organize the New Jersey Republicans for Eisenhower in the bitter preconvention campaign. After election President Eisenhower named Dillon U.S. Ambassador to France. Dillon was widely traveled in France, spoke French fluently (although he continued, as ambassador, to take an hour's instruction daily...
...Ambassador to the United Nations Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., 56, heir to a great Republican name, for 13 years Senator from Massachusetts, Dwight Eisenhower's campaign manager in 1952. President Eisenhower has great respect for Lodge, has insisted that he attend Cabinet meetings. But the nomination of Cabot Lodge, for all his obvious abilities, would almost certainly invite trouble in the Senate, where oldtimers still remember the impetuous, sometimes undependable ways of his youthful days as a Senator-even though an older and more considerate U.N. ambassador has long since mended the ways...
This questionable technique has resulted in such aberrations as l'affaire Gluck, when a New York dress manufacturer, recently appointed Ambassador to Ceylon, was unable to tell a Senate committee the name of the Ceylonese premier. Last week, while telling a press conference of his desire to see more career diplomats in senior positions, the President was pushing the nomination of the 35-year-old former owner of the solidly Republican New York Herald Tribune as Ambassador to Israel...
Bruce, however, has been intimately connected with the problems of Europe since the end of the war. In his present position as Ambassador to West Germany, he is probably the most knowledgeable negotiator the United States could have at the coming Foreign Ministers' meeting. Though he has not been in government service all his life, he is more nearly a career diplomat than any of his potential rivals. Installing a Secretary of State who has devoted much of his life to professional government service is a valuable precedent. Bruce served in the Foreign Service for two years during the Twenties...
...with the strategy of the State Department and appoint a "more striking public figure to the Secretary's post for reasons of public confidence." He suggested such names as Gen. Alfred Gruenther, Henry Cabot Lodge '24, John J. McCloy, former High Commissioner to Germany, and David K. E. Bruce, Ambassador to Germany...