Word: ambassadors
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...million. Atop that, Dillon will urge Congress to okay big increases in U.S. commitments to the World Bank and the currency-stabilizing International Monetary Fund. "The most important economic question facing the U.S.," says Dillon, onetime Wall Street investment banker who served four years (1953-57) as Ambassador to France, "is whether the less developed countries will choose the Communist system or the Western system in their struggle against poverty. The verdict will depend largely on how much the industrialized countries of the West do to help the less developed countries achieve an adequate rate of economic growth...
...White House lobby Honest Harold soon got to what was on his mind: dump Dick Nixon. "There are a number of men," said he, "who could lead our Republican Party to victory in 1960-Ambassador Lodge, Governor Rockefeller, Secretary [of the Treasury] Bob Anderson and Secretary [of the Interior] Fred Sea-ton." "Can't you think of one other?" a reporter asked. Stassen glowered at him, said nothing. "What about Nixon?" asked another. Replied Harold deadpan: "I think that this election of 1958 speaks for itself in that regard. I will be doing what I can to keep...
...What happened June 11, 1955 and Oct. 20, 1956? Adenauer's government had to admit last week that on those dates Adenauer's Finance Minister (now Justice Minister) Fritz Schaffer had indeed crossed over into East Berlin to talk with an East German minister and the Russian ambassador. Schaffer did it on his own, said Adenauer, and had not been deterred because "his conscience" required...
Bowles was elected Governor of Connecticut in 1948, and following his defeat in 1950, President Truman appointed him Ambassador to India and Nepal, where he developed a major Point Four program...
Chester Bowles, former Governor of Connecticut and Ambassador to India, will visit Winthrop House on Dec. 9 through 11, David E. Owen '27, Master of Winthrop House, announced last night...