Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eighteen hours after flying back to Washington, the President was saying goodbye to another good-will ambassador, headed for Central America: his younger brother, Milton S. Eisenhower, president of Johns Hopkins University and an experienced hand in Latin American affairs...
...January of this year Sary was packed off into gilded exile as Cambodia's Ambassador to Britain. Sary's entourage: his formidable No. 1 wife, Em, a plump suffragette, and their five children, ranging in age from 8 to 18; Tep Kanary, the young beauty queen, Sam's No. 2 wife and No. 1 mistress; the other beauty, Iv Eng Seng, was either No. 3 wife or No. 2 mistress. To get around British sensibilities, Iv Eng Seng was listed as a governess. Whose business was it that she was also pregnant? Sam Sary called on Queen...
Switch of String. Last month the idyllic arrangement came to an abrupt end. Iv Eng Seng fled from the embassy with her month-old baby boy to a London nursing home and complained that Sary had severely beaten her "for minor mistakes." Nonsense, replied Ambassador Sary gallantly: "I corrected her by hitting her with a Cambodian string whip. I never hit her on the face, always across the back and the thighs-a common sort of punishment in my country." Besides, said Sary, warming to his subject, he had every right under Cambodian law (he meant Cambodian custom) to whip...
...overcast, into crossing the frontier. Soviet propagandists began cranking up a new point to old charges at the U.N. and elsewhere that the USAF was launching "provocative" flights across the U.S.S.R. The State Department apologized for the violation of Soviet airspace, denied that it was deliberate, told Ambassador to Moscow Llewellyn Thompson to seek the airmen's prompt return. At week's end the Soviet government dropped off a note to Thompson to say that the U.S.S.R. 1) "takes into consideration" the U.S. regrets about crossing the border, 2) "expects" the U.S. to take "urgent and effective measures...
...from Syria. Half-jokingly, Jumblatt told U.N. officers that where he formerly got a mule train of supplies every night, a caravan now arrived only every second or third night "because of you people." By contrast, the government's forces had plenty of arms, and last week U.S. Ambassador Robert McClintock announced that additional U.S. shipments were...