Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...help Britain, Pakistan, Turkey and Iran "maintain collective security to resist aggression direct and indirect." At midweek Dulles was back in Washington to define U.S. summit conference aims at his press conference (see below), was off again this week for Brazil. He all but crisscrossed with Good-Will Ambassador Milton Eisenhower, just back from Central America with a trade-and-aid plan designed to head off developing Communist infiltration (see HEMISPHERE...
...refused to run a pipeline from their Edjele oilfield in the Sahara (estimated reserves: 70 million metric tons) over its natural route through Tunisia to the Mediterranean, unless French troops were allowed to stay in southern Tunisia to protect it. De Gaulle abandoned the conditions. He told Tunisian Ambassador Mohammed Masmoudi: "We are not at all opposed to Tunisia having its share of the Sahara's resources." The French and Tunisians signed an agreement to build the pipeline across Tunisia at a cost of $95 million, which will give jobs to 2,000 Tunisians, turn the sleepy Tunisian port...
...Furthermore," added the President, "this very evening, two hours ago, the Soviet ambassador brought me an offer from his government to sell Argentina $100 million worth of equipment, taking raw materials as payment...
...fair sample was the show's opening last fortnight in Madrid's newly founded Museo de Arte Contemporaneo. On hand to do the honors was U.S. Ambassador John Davis Lodge, who tried his best to make polite noises as he was led from one sprawling canvas to the next, fled 45 minutes after he arrived. One distinguished Spaniard, steeped in the traditions of El Greco and Velasquez, asked: "If this is art, what was it that Goya painted? You certainly can't compare the two." The abrupt reply from a partisan of the show...
Long-Distance Shout. About the only problem was the capricious censorship of Army General Fuad Shehab, who generally cut any mention of himself from written dispatches. Beirut papers appeared with great blank spaces and offending dispatches were scissored out of foreign newspapers. When U.S. Ambassador Robert McClintock pointedly observed that it would be nice to read an uncensored copy of the New York Times, Lebanon's President Chamoun politely offered to let McClintock have his copy when he had finished with...