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Painted Incident. Amidst the break down, U.S. Ambassador Philip W. Bonsal, who for 21 months tried unsuccessfully to practice his expert brand of patient, quiet diplomacy, was recalled to Washington for "an extended period of consultation," leaving U.S. affairs in the hands of Chargé Daniel Braddock. Chances are that Bonsai will not return. With Cuba's Washington embassy also headed by a charge, diplomacy between the two nations will become as difficult as commerce...
...President's position on Cuba was set out following two days of conferences among Eisenhower, Secretary of State Christian A. Herter and the U.S. ambassador to Cuba, Philip W. Bonsal...
...Bonsal was summoned back from Cuba after Castro, in a TV broadcast last week, accused the U.S. Embassy of collaborating with foes of his government. He also denounced Vice President Richard M. Nixon...
Died. Stephen Bonsal, 86, author, diplomat, and in his time, one of the world's top foreign correspondents; after long illness; in Washington, D.C. At 20, he was in the Balkans covering the war between Bulgaria and Serbia for the New York Herald, from then on made the world his beat. Between 1889 and 1911, he chronicled wars and skirmishes in Morocco, Macedonia, Manchuria, Cuba, the Philippines, Venezuela, Russia (the 1907 revolution), Mexico. As a lieutenant colonel, Bonsal served as President Wilson's interpreter at Versailles, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1944 for Unfinished Business, his incisive footnotes...
...where gangs of Communist "Lenin boys" had killed a thousand citizens in three weeks, the solemn news of the victory that was really, defeat came through House's spies to the Conference. The dead still lay in the houses of Belgrade that the Austrians had shelled into ruins. Bonsal had walked un moved over the battlefields at Verdun, where many of the corpses were still unburied, "with still protruding, beseeching arms. ..." On Armistice Night in Paris Bonsal had met a brilliant Italian journalist with a careworn face who told him : "Yes, we have an armistice; the ora formidabile...