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...James's. When he served as U.S. Ambassador to Britain from 1961 to 1969, David K.E. Bruce was the very model of a professional diplomat: suave, brilliant and unusually well qualified. His successor in the Grosvenor Square embassy, the wealthy Philadelphia publisher and Nixon crony Walter H. Annenberg...
Harddriving, conservative and blunt, Annenberg, 61, suffers from periodic attacks of foot-in-mouth disease. In London, where verbal agility is an almost indispensable social grace, Annenberg's bloopers stand out like Mao badges in Moscow. A British magazine recently described Annenberg's manner as "that authentic transatlantic style which one might call folk-baroque, with the native bonhomie and verbal felicity of W. C. Fields." His phrases have an engraved quality. Asked how he liked London, for example, he replied: "I consider it a stronghold of dignified living." On his diplomatic role: "I am here...
...Annenberg got off to a poor start by choosing his first speech in London as the occasion for a blistering attack on student radicals back home. Since ambassadors do not normally attack fellow countrymen before foreign audiences, the British press sarcastically labeled the speech a "surprising public debut." To this sort of criticism, Annenberg has replied: "I'm used to swimming upstream." More recently, at a gathering held by the English-Speaking Union, he shook hands stiffly in the reception line but neglected to give a talk or mix with guests...
Nixon's appointment of Publisher Walter Annenberg as Ambassador to the Court of St. James's has only reinforced that view. Annenberg lacks his recent predecessors' instinctive knowledge of Britain. He also lacks their style. Asked by a Briton for his opinion of the special relationship, Annenberg replied: "I have always maintained that England and America belong in bed together...
Near Monopoly. One possible factor: Annenberg may have feared trouble with the Federal Communications Commission. His Triangle Publications company owns several television and radio stations, as well as TV Guide, Seventeen magazine, the Morning Telegraph and the Daily Racing Form. Renewal of Triangle's license to operate WFIL-TV in Philadelphia has been opposed by a former Democratic gubernatorial candidate in Pennsylvania, Milton Shapp. He claimed last July that Triangle exercised "a near news monopoly in the Philadelphia area," and that under Annenberg's direction, news had been "censored, omitted, twisted, distorted and used for personal vengeance." Triangle...