Word: ambassadorship
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...State Livingston Merchant and two retired Army generals who blasted the Eisenhower Administration defense policies: onetime Chief of Staff Maxwell Taylor and onetime Research and Development Chief James Gavin. Merchant will definitely pluck some plum, if not the Paris embassy then another major one. Among several contenders for the ambassadorship to Japan are John D. Rockefeller III, Harvard's Edwin O. Reischauer and Jeffrey Parsons, who is likely to be replaced as Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs by U. Alexis Johnson, at present Ambassador to Thailand...
...political exile and go to Yugoslavia-if, as expected, Marshal Tito will accept him. Already packing his bags for India is Harvard Economist John Galbraith, author of The Affluent Society. He will replace Ellsworth Bunker, who, as an able diplomat and devoted Democrat, is in line for another top ambassadorship, most likely to Brazil...
...That done, Wagner could make the race for re-election this year, with Felt as his running mate and reform support, and probably win. The plan calls for him to step down soon after, leaving his job to Felt and plucking for himself a ripe Kennedy ambassadorship (rumored: Ireland or Israel) or a new Cabinet post (rumored: Secretary of Urban Redevelopment). As a leading reform Democratic officeholder said: "Wagner is neither a strong man nor a decisive person. A federal appointment is logical...
Shifts in the Wind. With the State Department's Charles ("Chip") Bohlen talked about for a top ambassadorship (possibly Paris), Democrats in Washington were continuing with the fascinating game of musical State chairs. Under Secretary (Political Affairs) Livingston Merchant would like to go to the Court of St. James's, but probably will draw a post somewhat less prestigious. J. Graham ("Jeff") Parsons, Assistant Secretary for Far Eastern Affairs, is hoping for the big job in Tokyo. Ambassador Henry Byroade, who was exiled from Egypt, first to South Africa and then to Afghanistan, by John Foster Dulles...
...solid Republican, Dillon wrote foreign-policy speeches for Dewey in 1948, was an early bird for Ike in 1951. After the 1952 campaign, he was rewarded with the ambassadorship to Paris. No post could have made Dillon happier. His family owned one of the finest vineyards in the Bordeaux region, Château Haut-Brion, and his cousin, a resident of France who served his adopted country with distinction during the Occupation, was possibly the only native of the U.S. ever elected mayor of a French village. Though Dillon spoke fluent French, he took an hour's instruction daily...