Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moscow at once sent beefy Ambassador Andrei Smirnov lumbering to tell him, almost mockingly, that West Germans ought to be pleased over the Soviet plan to get the British, French and U.S. occupation forces out of Berlin. According to drastically edited versions of the old man's outrage, he grimly and bitterly exchanged unpleasantries with his caller for an hour...
Kill That Tiger! The xenophobia that in 1793 led the Emperor Ch'ien Lung to consider British Ambassador Lord Macartney a "Red barbarian bearing tribute," is still very much alive in China. "Westerners," says Foreign Minister Chen Yi, smiling faintly, "used to say Chinese were dirty. We were called an inferior race. Are we inferior...
...idea of the meeting was helped along by U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Robert C. Hill, a friend of both men. Johnson is an increasingly ardent booster of U.S.-Latin American trade; as a Texan, he is well aware of the problems just south of the Rio Grande. López Mateos generally favors U.S. development capital for Mexico...
Republican William H. Draper, Jr., Undersecretary of the Army in the Truman administration and a former ambassador to NATO under Eisenhower, was named chairman of a nine-member committee...
...about Cyprus and eager to join in any British-baiting, jumped in with praise of the "fighting spirit," in offense and defense, of the Italians who invaded Greece in 1940. Last week, at the personal request of British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, Monty penned a letter to the British Ambassador in Rome, which he said was "no retraction" but was intended to soothe. "In my view, the Italian army is, today, as good as any army in NATO . . . Any remarks I made in my memoirs were not intended to reflect in any way on the courage of the Italian soldier...