Word: cannoneer
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...Instrument. Since the U.S. had no veto power, all Cavendish Cannon could have done (and that might have been plenty) would have been to present the U.S.'s case loudly and firmly. He was not the man for that...
...very well for M. Krshihich (an artist and presumably a dreamer) to try to ward off evil by looking the other way; in practice, that method did not work. The U.S. was hopelessly licked in Belgrade because, instead of lighting into evil with fists flying, U.S. Ambassador Cavendish Cannon tended to shrink, like the reticent lady of the statue, from Vishinsky...
...Benedict Arnold sent his soldiers to dig iron for cannon in New York's Adirondack Mountains. There was iron there, but in the westward sweep of U.S. industry big steelmen passed the Adirondacks by. The country was too wild, its roads too few and its scant settlements too short of labor, they agreed, to make Adirondack mining...
That was the last real peep out of the Western powers. Soft-spoken U.S. Ambassador Cavendish Cannon could hardly be heard across the conference table...
...conference's first day it became apparent where Yugoslavia stood on the issue between Communism and the West. U.S. Delegate Cavendish Cannon asked that English be added to Russian and French as official languages of the conference. Vishinsky smilingly retorted that most of the participating states "loved and understood the Russian language." Yugoslavia's Ales Bebler supported him vigorously-in Russian...