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...British-backed Sultan of Muscat and Oman, eleven Arab states asked the U.N. Security Council to take up Britain's "armed aggression" in Oman, and Moscow joined in with a fevered blast against Britain's "inhuman methods of warfare against the peaceful population of Oman." Sir Harold Caccia, Britain's ambassador to Washington, called on John Foster Dulles to warn him that unless the U.S. supported Britain on Oman, it would be "almost as much a blow as Suez...
...Harold Caccia, the British Ambassador in Washington announced the winners of the grant on March...
...Lady Caccia, smartly tailored wife of Britain's new envoy to the U.S., met capital newshens over tea", crisply ticked off her first impressions of the U.S. Was she having tough sledding because of present tensions between Britain and the U.S.? Replied she: "I don't find between women any breach to be healed." On Washington: "Much like Paris, not too different from Vienna." On Manhattan's lack of "dream department stores": "The shops there are so much more like European shops than I had expected. They are cozy and untidy, and even deal in antiques." Having...
Willing Scapegoat. In Washington, British Ambassador Sir Harold Caccia had a confidential dinner with selected Washington pundits at the home of the Washington Post and Times Herald's Chalmers Roberts. There he confidentially criticized Dulles, explained that if Britain had not consulted the U.S. about the invasion of Egypt, Dulles had not consulted Britain on canceling the offer to build Egypt's Aswan High Dam. (The facts: Britain got one day's advance warning that the U.S. was considering cancellation; in any event, Britain had long been urging the U.S. to get tough with Nasser...
Personality: A passionate adherent to the Foreign Office's "cult of anonymity," bald, grey-eyed Careerman Caccia is a walking file on British policy problems, works quietly and effectively behind scenes, is quick and droll at the conference table. When the Russians accused the British of building a bomber base in postwar Vienna ("It was really only a flivver strip"), Caccia said that he would deliver a case of whisky if they could land a twin-engined plane there, added: "You pay the funeral expenses." The Russians dropped the complaint. Speaks French, German, Italian, Greek and a little Mandarin...