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...Ambassador to Japan, the President last week chose a career diplomat with a historic name: Douglas Mac-Arthur II. The name (for his uncle) may impress the Japanese, but it had nothing to do with his appointment. Suave, capable Douglas MacArthur, 47, was picked for his first ambassadorship strictly on performance...
...politician's instincts. His veto of the ill-smelling natural gas bill last February and of the farm bill, his utter frankness about his health, and last week his swift appointment of the Senate's most distinguished Democrat, Georgia's retiring Walter George, to a NATO ambassadorship (see below) -all these have turned resoundingly to his political account...
...soldier first and a revolutionary second, Voroshilov fully appreciated the rising menace of both German and Japanese power. U.S.-Soviet friendship, deprecated by many of the purely political commissars, was to him crucial. This same attitude prevailed through the ambassadorship of Joseph E. Davies and ceased only when Stalin signed the Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939. But the memory of agreement still remained, and World War II saw a degree of Allied co-operation on the military level that, naturally but regrettably, was not equalled on the political. Possibly, with Zhukov now Defense Minister and Voroshilov still an important factor...
Then, at the age of 70, writes Dr. Stuart in Fifty Years in China, "I was catapulted by strange circumstances into the U.S. ambassadorship at Nanking." The circumstances: General George Marshall wanted his help in the ill-fated mission to bring together the country's Nationalist rulers and Communist rebels in a coalition government. ("Broadening the base of Chinese democracy" said the Truman-Byrnes directives, which Author Stuart appends to his book, and which make hair-raising reading in 1954.) The author of Yenching's famous motto, "Freedom Through Truth for Service," accepted this last, fateful call...
...last week, as the scandal still simmered, it was announced that Hendrickson will be appointed to the federal bench (he turned down the ambassadorship to New Zealand). Loyal Partyman Hendrickson smiled broadly for the photographers, as well he might. Not many Republican politicians in New Jersey know exactly where they will stand after November, but Bob Hendrickson does...