Word: caccia
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...fireplace bearing the presidential seal, most of the Eisenhower-Macmillan talks took place. They began after a 45-minute Eisenhower nap and lunch (tomato soup, cheese souffle, cottage pudding with lemon sauce). The first day, Herter, Lloyd, U.S. Ambassador to London John Hay Whitney and British Ambassador Sir Harold Caccia also participated in some of the discussions. Ike called for Deputy Under Secretary of State Robert Murphy, Deputy Defense Secretary Donald Quarles, Atomic Energy Commission Chairman John McCone and Science Adviser James Killian to attend next morning. Between conferences and dinner sessions, Ike and Macmillan drove together along winding roads...
...could not agree on what to do in the event of a new Berlin blockade. Columnist Joseph Alsop's declaration that the British were reneging on the idea of sending an armored column through to Berlin, even as a last resort, brought British Ambassador to Washington Sir Harold Caccia hustling into the State Department with a hard denial that Britain had done any such thing. Soviet radar jamming devices now all but rule out an easy repetition of the electronics-backed Berlin airlift, but the British feel that public discussion of blockade-busting devices should be confined to airlift...
...that, British Ambassador Sir Harold Caccia replied tartly that it was hard to believe that "the entire national security of the U.S. would be imperiled if two turbines were built by her ally, Britain." He implied that a $1,757,210 contract could not make or break a vital industry, especially since there are five U.S. manufacturers of hydraulic turbines. Moreover, U.S. manufacturers have won 21 of the 23 important Government hydraulic-turbine jobs since 1952. Still unsatisfied, they are lobbying hard to bar foreign manufacturers from bidding...
Despite the formality of such occasions, some diplomatic hosts are better known-and liked-than others. "Some make the grade because of the countries they represent," a Brazilian diplomat once explained it, "and some in spite of the countries they represent." Britain's Sir Harold Caccia entertains infrequently, but the British embassy is decidedly a place to be seen (although Lady Caccia has earned many a raised eyebrow because of her custom of moving guests from one after-dinner conversational cluster to another). Belgium's Silvercruys gives small but elegant dinners at his home, forbids shop talk...
...corridors that the Arab motion could not pass, the U.S. abstained. Officially, the U.S. pleaded the need of more information, but actually the State Department straddled in the hope of not antagonizing either of two friends, Britain or Saudi Arabia. Beforehand, the State Department had been sufficiently disturbed by Caccia's warnings to ask its own London embassy to predict whether, as Caccia implied, there would be an anguished British outcry against the U.S. for abstaining. The U.S. embassy estimate was that there would not be, and it proved to be right...