Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decided again to hold back public release of the damning evidence. Instead, the State Department privately confronted the Russians with the recording, hoping that the Soviets would settle the incident quickly to avoid worldwide condemnation. Deputy Under Secretary of State Robert Murphy tried it first, called Soviet Ambassador Mikhail Menshikov into his Washington office. "Smiling Mike" refused to listen to the recording, but Murphy handed him a Russian transcript. Result: silence...
...accounts, the U.S. and Britain could not agree on what to do in the event of a new Berlin blockade. Columnist Joseph Alsop's declaration that the British were reneging on the idea of sending an armored column through to Berlin, even as a last resort, brought British Ambassador to Washington Sir Harold Caccia hustling into the State Department with a hard denial that Britain had done any such thing. Soviet radar jamming devices now all but rule out an easy repetition of the electronics-backed Berlin airlift, but the British feel that public discussion of blockade-busting devices...
Speaking for the Yugoslavians, the ambassador said that if there is a peaceful coexistence, "we hope to be the first to benefit." But Vidic called upon the larger nations to effect a peace. "The small countries like Yugoslavia cannot do as much, but the powers, with confidence and optimism, can work together...
Peace can come only with a climate of coexistence among nations, the Yugoslavian Ambassador to the United Nations stated here last night...
Vidic, who has been in diplomatic service since 1951, has served in the Yugoslav Embassy in London, and was previously Ambassador to Moscow...