Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. '24, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., told a Sanders Theater audience last night that "Harvard was decisive for the the future career of Theodore Roosevelt...
...wish to protest against the spirit in which several of the questions addressed to the Soviet Ambassador at the Law School Forum last Friday night were posed. In presenting Mr. Menshikov, I assume it was the purpose of the Harvard United Nations Council and the Harvard Law School Forum to promote understanding between the two great powers. However, some of the questions were not designed to solicit information, but to embarrass the Ambassador personally. Granted that our society is radically different from the Soviet Union, the question period should not have been used to demonstrate this difference, but to understand...
...rebels even paid a courtesy coffee call on their former enemies at the headquarters of the Christian Phalange. The U.S. embassy declared the situation so improved that it was safe for American dependents to return to the country. The new Cabinet rescinded an earlier order expelling Nasser's ambassador from Beirut. The gesture reflected Lebanon's new-style neutralism -a desire to live in harmony with both the West and with Nasser, though becoming an ally of neither. And that was quite all right with the U.S., whose troops can hardly wait to leave...
...Later, Charles ("Hell 'n' Maria") Dawes became a Republican but stayed a flute player. He used his favorite instrument to relax from a hectic career during which he served seven Presidents-he started as McKinley's Comptroller of the Currency, was Vice President under Coolidge, Ambassador to the Court of St. James's for Hoover, left public life at 67 as director of Hoover's Reconstruction Finance Corp. Once in 1911 he tried his hand at composition-a simple air entitled Melody in A Major. A friend liked it and sold it to a publisher...
Mikhail A. Menshikov, the Ambassador of the Soviet Union, yesterday expressed interest in the living accommodations which will be offered the four Russian students who plan to study here for a year...