Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...each other. Nasser has split authority in Syria among 1) Old Politicos Akram Hourani and Sabri el Assali, Vice Presidents of the U.A.R.; 2) Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj, now Interior Minister, press czar, and boss of a police state intelligence network; 3) Mahmoud Riad, onetime Egyptian army colonel and Ambassador to Syria, who is Nasser's shadow in Damascus. But while Nasser still rides tall in the saddle with the masses, he is faced with a growing restlessness among influential Syrians. Items...
...enthusiasm for a Marshall Plan for Latin America may well be restrained, but the Latinos are expected to endorse it heartily. Quipped one Latin American ambassador as he left Catete Palace after the speech: "Viva underdevelopment...
...Pretty high-class people," said the manager of Kansas City's Ambassador Hotel. "They had satin sheets on the beds." The "people" were Lieut. General Rafael ("Ramfis") Trujillo Jr., who checked out of a full-floor Ambassador suite last week after failing to get a diploma from the Army Command and General Staff College at nearby Fort Leavenworth, Kans. With two aides, a collie and 35 pieces of luggage, he boarded a private railroad car bound for the West Coast and the only person who seemed to care: Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor...
...four-masted bark measuring 316 ft. from the tapered stern to the golden eagle on its bow, Angelita is the same ship that dazzled bleak Russia in 1937 when its former owner, Mrs. Marjorie Merriweather Post Davies, and husband Joseph E. Davies, U.S. Ambassador to the U.S.S.R., sailed the vessel, then named Sea Cloud, through the Baltic to Leningrad...
...highhanded as they were spectacular. Covering Europe in 1914, he charmed the German high command into letting him break the news that the submarine U-9 had sunk three British battleships ("the greatest setback the British navy has ever suffered"). So dazzled by Swope was James W. Gerard, U.S. Ambassador to Germany, that he disclosed confidential reports that Germany planned to launch submarine attacks against U.S. ships. Swope's story was promptly denied by the State Department, promptly confirmed by history...