Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...probably do not think of it in this way, but I do. To be commissioned in the Navy, you had to be appointed by the President with the approval of Congress. This is the procedure and requirement for the seating of a Supreme Court judge or an ambassador. This is why a naval officer must have his chin out at all times...
...Fleet's Amphibious Force Commander Rear Admiral Howard ("Red") Yeager, the Marines' Brigadier General Sidney Wade, the Army Airborne's Brigadier David W. Gray. Holloway must also make the rounds of U.S. and Lebanese officials-the State Department's visiting Trouble-shooter Robert Murphy, U.S. Ambassador McClintock, Lebanon's President Chamoun, Army Chief Shehab-to keep in close touch and in close tune with the intricate local negotiations. Holloway also has to keep in tune with what passes in Lebanon for public opinion. "The people of Beirut," he says, "are largely in favor...
...sources, Bartholomew made plain, was U.S. Ambassador Henry J. Taylor, onetime radio commentator, who was quoted: "The most vicious bullet the Reds have in the cold war is the dope traffic." Swiss newspapers angrily demanded the ambassador's recall, and told their readers that he was the same Taylor "who once wrote sensational stories about flying saucers." Taylor and Bartholomew issued conflicting versions of their interview; the Swiss government summoned Taylor to tell him that they were "not enchanted," and the U.S. State Department apologized to the Swiss for the "embarrassment caused...
Into Beirut flew the U.S.'s five-star Ambassador Robert Murphy, after a record eleven-hour nonstop flight from the U.S. To make certain that Chamoun does not use U.S. marines to keep himself in power. Murphy had behind him President Eisenhower's explicit statement that the U.S. accepts Chamoun's declaration that he will not try for a second term. It was Murphy's delicate, difficult mission to try to "orchestrate" a new solution among the squabbling Lebanese, so that the marines can go back to their ships...
...show headed by El-Kassim, a tough and idealistic soldier who became Premier as well as Minister of Defense and the Interior. The man who became President of the Council of State, General Najeeb el-Rubaiya, was out of the country at the time; he was Iraq's Ambassador to Saudi Arabia. By 6 a.m. the radio was trumpeting: "Citizens of Baghdad, the Monarchy is dead! The Republic is here!" Only one thing remained to be done: find Iraq's old strongman, pro-Western Nuri asSaid, 70, who had lived up to his nickname...