Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rank-first the Russians, then the Chinese Reds, then the Eastern Europeans, with Rumania bringing up the rear (they always leave or arrive in that order). When the recess ended, the two front rows of seats reserved for foreign Communist observers were empty -save for Poland's Ambassador to Belgrade, rotund little Henryk Grochulski...
Presumably somebody told Khrushchev he had said the wrong thing. Last week, as he held forth at a Polish embassy reception in Moscow, his eye lit on Israel's Ambassador Joseph Avidar. Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians had asked Marshal Voroshilov about Soviet mistreatment of Jews, Khrushchev said, during her recent visit to Moscow's Tchaikovsky festival. Voroshilov denied the charge by saying, "In fact my wife is Jewish." Khrushchev added: "Half the members of the Presidium have Jewish wives." Those who keep track of such matters in the West doubt that even two Presidium members have Jewish...
...response to an insistent but mysterious luncheon invitation, a shoal of ex-Premiers and other top politicians assembled at the home of a former Cabinet minister in Paris one afternoon last week. To the astonishment of most of them, the principal guest proved to be Moscow's Ambassador to France-busy, birdlike Sergei Vinogradov, one of the new Soviet breed of laughing-boy diplomats. Even more astonishing was Vinogradov's chosen topic of conversation: maintenance of French power in North Africa...
After watching Britain's Prince Philip and his team of Welsh Guards gambol through a polo match, U.S. Embassy Secretary Elizabeth Davis (granddaughter of the late Norman H. Davis, an F.D.R. ambassador at large) approached the titled gamesman with pen and paper in hand, asked for an autograph. While aghast flunkies scurried to his rescue, the Prince obliquely hinted that the royal scrawl is not available to souvenir hunters, cracked: "Well, I know it's an old custom-but you see I don't know how to write," sped off in his Lagonda as Secretary Davis...
...performance of the 20-year-old work, opening with Joan at the stake and flashing back and forth through her persecution, trial and condemnation, revealed the basic weakness in the libretto by France's late Poet-Ambassador (to the U.S. in 1927-33) Paul Claudel: its tendency to reduce a profound, many-faceted conflict to charcoal black and Rinso white. But Bernstein gave the music the surging, evocative reading that its subject demands, kept a near-perfect balance be tween orchestra, soloists and his acres of chorus. Actress Montealegre gave her reading with luminous conviction and a fine sense...