Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ambassador Howard Jones issued his regrets that an American "paid soldier of fortune" had become involved in the fighting, and the Indonesians seemed willing to let it go at that...
...Maurice Couve de Murville, 51, lawyer, financial expert, career diplomat. Son of a judge in Reims, and a Protestant, Couve de Murville became Inspector of Finance at 23. He escaped from Vichy France to North Africa during the war, served as Finance Minister under De Gaulle. After serving as Ambassador to Egypt and representative to NATO, he became Ambassador to the U.S. in 1955-56, but nearly lost his job when he angered Antoine Pinay by a U.S. radio interview. Foreign Minister Pinay had led a French walkout from the U. N. over Algeria, but Ambassador Couve de Murville assured...
Because Yugoslavia's Communist Tito was getting out of hand with his insistence on "separate roads to Socialism" (TIME, May 5), Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko last week called in Tito's Moscow ambassador and coldly told him that Russia had decided to "postpone" for five years its entire $285 million program of economic aid (aluminum and hydroelectric plants, fertilizer factories) to Yugoslavia...
...Americans in Dublin unanimously cringe," said Ambassador Scott McLeod, "at the effect which American movies appear to create on the local population." Reading on through a poll (reported in Variety) of U.S. embassies throughout the world, Producer Walter Wanger found enough similar opinions to send him to Hollywood's defense. Said he: "Poppycock!" The world's peoples, he argued, welcome the fresh air of America's uncensored, unsubsidized films. Producer Sam (The Bridge on the River Rival) Spiegel was less certain. Asked if he thought the U.S. film industry was meeting its international responsibility, Spiegel replied...
...government's victory became assured, Indonesian officials spoke enthusiastically about the "new understanding" between Djakarta and Washington. President Sukarno and his beautiful fourth wife, Hartini, made an unprecedented visit to Ambassador Jones's Dutch colonial residence for lunch. Sukarno jovially shook hands with the four U.S. marines of the embassy guard; he toasted President Eisenhower and the American people in orange squash. Purred another guest, Foreign Minister Subandrio: "We insiders, who know the process of thinking of Dulles and the setup of the State Department, realize that Indonesian-U.S. relations are improving...