Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Suez Canal Zone, the U.S. made clear that its sympathies lay with Egypt. Long after the British finally gave way in 1954 to Egypt's demands, Sir Anthony Eden grumbled that the negotiations had been vastly complicated by the fact each time a settlement seemed near, U.S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery had urged Egypt's Nasser to demand better terms. Two years later, when Britain and France set out to reoccupy the Canal Zone by force, the U.S. publicly repudiated its two oldest and closest allies, in a demonstration of devotion to principle perhaps unique in diplomatic annals...
...Cologne, where she is visiting her father, the Iranian Ambassador to West Germany, childless Soraya said she was prepared to "sacrifice my own happiness" because the Shah "considers it necessary that the constitutional monarchy be perpetuated through succession to the throne in a direct line of sons from generation to generation." As consolation, ex-Queen Soraya gets a $67,000 settlement, an annual allowance of reportedly $48,000 until she remarries, permanent possession of several million dollars' worth of jewelry bought for her by the Shah, and the honorary title of "Princess" to express the Shah's "appreciation...
...Five-Year-Planner Mikhail Pervukhin, who voted against Khrushchev during last June's leadership showdown, was shipped off even before the elections to be Soviet Ambassador to East Germany. Question for Premier Bulganin, who also guessed wrong last summer: If one nomination meant East Germany, what did 15 portend...
...Gandhi's injunctions against violence, when necessary, in order to uphold the law. During the bloody rioting between Hindus, Moslems and Sikhs that racked India in the months before and after independence, Desai's skilled and vigorous handling of his police cut casualties immeasurably. In 1954 U.S. Ambassador George V. Allen publicly declared that Desai's Bombay had been selected as the site of a $30 million Standard Vacuum refinery because of its "remarkable stability...
...Ernest Thompson, chairman of the powerful Texas Railroad Commission, which controls oil production in the state that produces nearly half of U.S. oil; and Willis C. Armstrong, director of the State Department's Office of International Resources. Because Canada is also affected by U.S. restrictions, Canada's Ambassador to Venezuela joined the talks. Some of the facts: ¶ Of the 14% drop-off in Venezuelan oil production since the Suez-crisis peak of 2,900,000 bbl. a day, the slump in the world market accounted for about 10%, U.S. voluntary restrictions for only...