Word: ambassadorship
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When Fair Dealer Chester Bowles, onetime ad-agency tycoon, onetime OPA administrator and ex-governor of Connecticut, asked Harry Truman for the ambassadorship to India, he let himself in for some unexpected complications. Spending their first night on Indian soil, Bowles, his wife and their three younger children huddled together in one room of Bombay's Taj Mahal Hotel, awed and made uncomfortable by the five barn-sized rooms of the viceroy suite, in which their attendants had distributed them. Bowles faced his first formal call on President Rajendra
...Three Separations. Last January, after the Republican victory had brought an end to Democrat O'Dwyer's ambassadorship to Mexico, he announced that Mexico's Archbishop Luis Maria Martinez had granted him and Sloan a "temporary separation...
...English Derby, to marry a pretty woman and to be Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. He never won the Derby, gave up trying years ago. His fourth wife, Polly, is blonde and pretty, and while Lisbon is not London, it's still an ambassadorship...
...California's William Knowland were not really happy about the nomination. Nevada's crusty Democrat, Pat McCarran, joined the GOP opposition; Bohlen's link with Yalta, he said, is "enough for me." Ohio's Robert Taft, in his role of Republican pacifier, thought the Moscow ambassadorship not important enough for a big intraparty battle. "Our Russian ambassador can't do anything. He is in a box at Moscow. All he can do is observe and report. He will not influence policy materially...
Last Thursday, the President removed the Ambassadorship from domestic entanglements by recommending a capable, career diplomat, George V. Allen, for the post. But if the new Ambassador wishes to stop the recent dwindling of confidence in the U.S., he should intensify, not change, our present policy towards India...