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...department has been metaphorically denounced as a "bowl of jelly" (President Kennedy), drowning not only in its "booze allowance" (Congressman John Rooney) but under a flood of paper work springing from "the bureaucratic necessity that everyone has to write so much to justify his existence" (Ambassador to Kenya William Attwood), while working under an overall policy based on "the lowest anti-Communist denominator" (Professor Hans Morgenthau) with a surplus of "pedestrian people" (former Ambassador James Gavin) headed by a Secretary with an "irrevocably conventional mind" (Arthur Schlesinger...
...simply because of obscure writing. The literary quality of State Department reports drove that lover of lucid language, John Kennedy, to distraction. A few ambassadors, it is true, are notable for their style, among them Ambassador to Britain David Bruce, Ambassador to Laos William Sullivan, and Ambassador to Kenya Attwood. "Their reports are so good," says a member of the Policy Planning Council, "that people in the State Department look forward to reading them, and pass their cables around. As you would expect, their reports get action commensurate with the attention they get." Attwood, a longtime professional journalist, was recently...
...instructions from Washington, U.S. Ambassador William Attwood broke off the talks. To save the lives of the hostages, the 600 men of Belgium's crack Regiment Para-Commando, led by a stocky, balding Africa hand, Colonel Charles Laurent, 51, would have to live up to their motto: Nee lactantia Nee Metu (Neither Boasting nor Fearing). They...
...been watched with dismay but little action from Washington and London. Though the British publicly pooh-pooh the suggestion that tiny Zanzibar (pop. 315,000) is becoming an African Cuba, they alerted mainland East African governments to the danger of subversion. When the U.S. Ambassador to Kenya, William Attwood, chimed in with a similar warning that Zanzibar should be "a source of concern to Africans," the Revolutionary Council took umbrage. Last week it peremptorily demanded the removal of a $3,000,000 U.S. space-tracking station, one of 16 strung around the world to communicate with orbiting U.S. astronauts. Washington...
...party's presidential nomination, Illinois' onetime (1949-53) Democratic Governor Adlai Stevenson, 60, believes in being prepared. Last week, with Stevenson still away on a tour of Latin America, his friends at home made known that he had enlisted as a fulltime speechwriter a longtime friend: William Attwood, 40, who took a nine-month leave from his job as foreign editor of Look Magazine. Attwood's assignment (for which he will be paid his regular Look salary by a group of Stevenson fans): to author a series of speeches on U.S. high policy, which Adlai Stevenson will...