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...major U.S. diplomatic shift was in the works. Headed for Spain was astute, aristocratic Norman Armour. Slated for retirement was balding, professorial Carlton Joseph Huntley Hayes, after a short (30-month) career in Madrid...
...Spanish assignment for Armour was a neat answer to a double problem. It would: 1) provide an important post for an able career man unposted since his recall from Argentina in July; 2) give the U.S. a competent observer in an old trouble spot soon likely to become Europe's last existing Fascist state...
...Norman Armour (of the Princeton, not the meat-packing Armours) had spent a good part of his 29-year career in trouble spots. As a diplomatic fledgling, he went through the Red Revolution in Leningrad, where he met a Russian princess, Myra Koudacheff, got her safely out of the country, and later married her. In Argentina, from 1939 until his recall, he rode the ups & downs of U.S. prestige like a veteran gaucho. In the years between, he was in Tokyo at the time of the Nanking incident, helped get the U.S. Marines out of Haiti, survived Chile...
...White House statement on the changes said that "an important diplomatic post" would soon be found for capable career diplomat Norman Armour, ex-Ambassador to Argentina. With most top European assignments filled, dopesters guessed that Armour's next assignment would be Brazil, Breckinridge Long-so went the guesses-would probably go to Cuba as Ambassador; but gnomelike Adolph Berle will probably return to his New York law practice...
...Hemisphere Doghouse. Last June the U.S. State Department finally lost all patience with Argentina, withdrew Ambassador Norman Armour from Buenos Aires, where he had had no official relations with the Government since the accession of President Farrell. Britain obligingly followed suit. So did most of the Latin American nations. Argentina found herself in diplomatic quarantine, recognized only by Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay and Ecuador among Hemisphere nations...