Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...KENNAN PLAN. With sweeping simplicity, former U.S. Ambassador to Russia George Kennan a year ago suggested that in return for complete withdrawal of Soviet forces from Eastern Europe, all U.S. troops should leave Continental Europe. Like Gaitskell, Kennan is willing to accept German neutrality as the price of German reunification...
Britain's intelligence agencies have long been regarded as the world's best. Despite slip-ups in World War II-as when a German agent served as valet to the British Ambassador to Turkey, and the distressing affair in The Netherlands when, for 20 months, the Nazis fed faked radio messages to London and captured 54 British agents-the British scored coups that helped make good the boast that Allied intelligence had won "the underground war" as well as the fighting...
...Manuel Tello, 59, Secretary of Foreign Affairs. Ruiz Cortines' able Ambassador to the U.S. for the past six years, he will probably be replaced in Washington by Antonio Carrillo Flores, 49, Finance Secretary under Ruiz Cortines and one of the best friends the U.S. has in Mexico...
When Multimillionaire Financier John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, 54, U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, bought the faltering New York Herald Tribune (circ. 377,400) from the Reid family last summer (TIME, Sept. 8), one of the main questions left unanswered was the future of boyish Ogden ("Brown") Reid, the paper's 33-year-old publisher and editor. Last week it was reported that Reid will leave his operating post on the Trib this month, with no fixed plans for the future. He will still be connected with the Trib: he and brother Whitelaw...
...delegates, meeting in Manhattan, also heard some talk that pleased them less. Lebanon's Charles Malik, president of the U.N. General Assembly, and Carlos Romulo, Philippine Ambassador to Washington, both declared that the U.S. is losing prestige in the eyes of other nations. Malik said that "the number of countries which either vote against or abstain with respect to texts sponsored or supported by the U.S. has been on the increase in recent years." Said Romulo, a longtime friend of the U.S.: "The once ingrained belief in the Asian mind of the invincibility, the superiority and the invulnerability...