Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dobrivoje Vidic, Yugoslavian Ambassador to the United Nations, will visit the University today and speak on "Problems of Coexistence" tonight at 8 p.m. in Emerson D, at a meeting open to the public...
Zbigniew K. Brzezinski, assistant professor of Government, Horace G. Lunt II '41, associate professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and Adam B. Ulam, associate professor of Government, have expressed interested in meeting the Ambassador at that time...
Another yarn, Call of the Sea, tells of a banquet and ball given by the nautical-minded British ambassador on a log raft in Belgrade's Sava River. It is a superb affair until the raft slips its moorings and makes a break for the Danube. Passing under Belgrade castle, the soused "Flower of European Diplomacy" is spotted by Comrade-Gunner Popovic, who takes the diplomats for hostile Czech paratroopers. Hoping to distinguish himself, possibly even to win his country's "Order of Mercy and Plenty with Crossed Haystacks," Popovic puts a safety match to the castle cannon...
...plight of a distressed lady brings out -sometimes -the gallant in men, and rarely better than in Ghana. When the pet ostrich of chic Madame Claude de Guirin-gaud, wife of France's ambassador, disappeared, who should come hurrying to the rescue? None other than Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah himself. Hearing a missing-bird bulletin over the state radio station, Nkrumah forthwith phoned the chief of police in Accra to get his head out of the sand. Dragnet-quick result: the chief found his quarry in his own garden, triumphantly reported to the P.M., who triumphantly eased Madame...
...that, British Ambassador Sir Harold Caccia replied tartly that it was hard to believe that "the entire national security of the U.S. would be imperiled if two turbines were built by her ally, Britain." He implied that a $1,757,210 contract could not make or break a vital industry, especially since there are five U.S. manufacturers of hydraulic turbines. Moreover, U.S. manufacturers have won 21 of the 23 important Government hydraulic-turbine jobs since 1952. Still unsatisfied, they are lobbying hard to bar foreign manufacturers from bidding...