Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...former member of [the antiparty] group [Molotov] became an ambassador. True, the country [Outer Mongolia] may not be large, but it is an ambassadorship. I do not want to mention names, but you have some former Secretaries of State. I do not know where they are today, but they are not ambassadors. A second member of the group [Kaganovich] is now head of the state asbestos trust. Is that punishment, to head up a big monopoly? ... It is better to confess to one's errors than to persist in them...
This becalming atmosphere reflected, in part, a change of heart among those outside powers concerned with Cyprus. Greece and Turkey, not on speaking terms two months ago, seem mutually appalled by disorder's reign, and are making private efforts to narrow their differences. Greece's Ambassador to Turkey has been shuttling between Athens and Ankara, setting the stage for a meeting in Paris this week between Turkish Foreign Minister Fatin Rustu Zorlu and Greek Foreign Minister Evangelos Averoff-Tossizza. Greece is moving closer to abandoning its cry of enosis (union with Greece) and Turkey its demand for partition...
...Independent One. The daughter of South Viet Nam's present Ambassador to the U.S., Mme. Ngo married at 15, was soon smack in the middle of her country's resistance first to the French, and then to the Communists. Thrown into prison in 1946, she escaped, joined the partisans. Today, in her bustling office in the palace, which because of its busyness she calls Le Moulin (the mill), she handles a bewildering assortment of visitors and letters asking every sort of favor, from help in curbing an abusive husband to advice on a Latin essay. She manages...
...been late for everything, whether leading a combat patrol or speaking last week to the Havana Rotary Club, where a blue-ribbon audience waited 4¾ hours for his arrival. Wildly, he blasted U.S. arms aid to Batista, but he paid a friendly call at 1 a.m. on the ambassador from Britain, which sold tanks and planes to Batista for nearly a year after the U.S. had stopped...
...selling Parade. Field Enterprises' Sunday supplement, to John Hay Whitney, U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's and controlling owner of the New York Herald Tribune, for $12 million, and by disposing of several other properties, Field raised the $18 million cash that Jack Knight asked for his 75% controlling interest in the News. Ultimately the buy will cost Field another $6,000,000. as minority stockholders, with some 120.000 shares, respond to his offer to buy them out at $50 a share-5 points over the market price. For this he gets an afternoon circulation...