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...cozy desk job as his superiors were determined that he should stay in it. In Foreign Office Regulations, Diplomat Maclean found the loophole he was looking for: an inexorable rule that any civil servant who participated in politics would have to resign. Hurrying around to his chief, Sir Alexander Cadogan (for the last four years Britain's delegate to U.N.), Maclean declared a sudden passion for political controversy. "In that case," replied Sir Alexander with icy brevity, "you will have to leave the Service...
...more than once a month, always finds tickets hard to get. Australia's J. 0. Makin is the most devoted theatergoer (he has sat through Anne of the Thousand Days four times), possibly because in his youth he wanted to be an actor himself. Britain's Alexander Cadogan found American plays rather inferior; as for recent movies he liked best, they were Henry V., Hamlet and Fallen Idol; when Cadogan thought about it, he realized that all three of them were British. As for T. S. Eliot's Cocktail Party (TIME, Jan. 30), Cadogan found some...
Britain's Sir Alexander Cadogan was well entangled with his flamingo. His government has withdrawn recognition from Dr. Tsiang's government, and recognized that of Malik's Communist friends. Yet Sir Alexander voted for Tsiang and against Malik. The Briton spoke acidly of Malik's "valuable cooperation," meaning just the opposite. Sir Alexander said he would not repeat his remark of the previous meeting, that Malik's demand for Tsiang's ouster was "premature." By this Sir Alexander meant that he would repeat his remark...
...Elevator. The next day newsmen and photographers packed the lobby of the office building at 2 Park Avenue. Jessup was already in his headquarters on the 23rd floor. Chauvel and Cadogan threaded their way through the crush and into the elevator. In Jessup's modest green and brown office, American, Briton and Frenchman had only a few minutes' wait. At 12:31 the door to Jessup's office was thrown open. There, nodding, was burly Yakov Malik, his smile the beaming equivalent of the Russian for "Hello...
...hour and a half later the conference ended; Malik, Chauvel and Cadogan departed. Less than an hour later Malik called back by telephone. Russia had agreed to final details on the lifting of the blockade...