Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though his hard warnings got and deserved the headlines, the President made pleas for peaceful negotiation his first and last points. "Traditionally this country and its Government have always been passionately devoted to peace with honor," said he. Later, he spoke hopefully of the meetings in Warsaw, where U.S. Ambassador Jacob Beam was preparing for Quemoy negotiations with Red Chinese Ambassador Wang Ping-nan this week. If the bilateral talks fail, said Eisenhower, "there is still the hope that the United Nations could exert a peaceful influence...
...chiropractor Clinton A. ("Doc") Clauson, 63, Waterville fuel-oil dealer and onetime mayor, defeated onetime (1945-49) Republican Governor Horace Hildreth, 55, former U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan, by a respectable 10,600 votes...
When Dwight Eisenhower proclaimed his tough "no appeasement" principle (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), most NATO and SEATO members dutifully applauded. But the heartfelt cheers came when Ike reiterated U.S. willingness to negotiate, and the State Department announced that U.S. Ambassador Jacob Beam and Red China's urbane Wang Ping-nan would meet in Warsaw's 18th century Myslewiki Palace at the beginning of this week...
Jordan's King Hussein, said Hammarskjold, agreed to accept an ambassador as the U.N.'s "presence" in Amman, provided others were named for Cairo and Baghdad, too. Nasser had no objection to one in Amman, but to accept one in Cairo would be an admission that Nasser was guilty of something. That he rejected out of hand. In the face of such intransigence, Hussein concluded that a U.N. presence was no substitute for British troops. This week Amman announced that the British, whose aid was cut off at Jordanian request in 1957, had agreed to grant Jordan...
...Taking up his new post as Nationalist China's ambassador, personable, U.S.-educated (Amherst '24) George Yen had only one request: "a more adequate convoy system" by U.S. warships escorting Nationalist supply vessels to Quemoy...