Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate seat. The contenders: St. Paul's Eugene McCarthy, 42, onetime St. John's University economics and education professor and five-term Congressman with one of the most liberal voting records in the House; Red Wing's Mrs. Eugenie Anderson, 49, Harry Truman's Ambassador to Denmark, who had campaigned hard through the state by 1953 Oldsmobile to overtake Gene McCarthy's early lead...
That was Sukarno's first venture in winksmanship, four weeks ago. His second came when U.S. Ambassador Howard P. Jones was summoned to the Foreign Ministry in Djakarta and told that army intelligence reported that a Nationalist Chinese battalion had landed in North Celebes to help the beleaguered rebels. Ambassador Jones knew that the report was absurd, but he also got the diplomatic point. Sukarno was demanding that the U.S. stop being "neutral" about the Indonesian civil war and take a stand...
...alone; the State Department promptly issued licenses for the immediate sale of small arms and munitions to Djakarta; the U.S. eagerly agreed to send Indonesia $5,500,000 worth of badly needed rice. All of these measures had been proposed even before the rebellion began by the then U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia, veteran Career Diplomat John Allison, whose reward had been replacement by Ambassador Jones. Washington then had more hopes and fears-fears that the Communists were about to take over Indonesia lock, stock and barrel; hopes that the rebels would be able to arrest the Communist drift...
Mikhail A. Menshikov, Russian Ambassador to the United States, has accepted an invitation from the Harvard United Nations Council to speak here next Fall...
Silverman emphasized the fact that the U.N. Council is "a non-partisan organization" but added that Menshikov's appearance would be "beneficial" to the student body. "The Harvard community will have an opportunity to hear and question the Soviet ambassador first-hand...