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...woman-how to make a man happy. Every secret and every skill of 5,000 years have been imparted to her every day and every night of her life." Grant gulps, but remembers that he is about to be married to another beautiful girl( Deborah Kerr), a brainy careerist in the U.S. State Department...
...Ambassador to Yugoslavia: James W. Riddleberger, 48, foreign-service careerist, veteran of the postwar Battle for Berlin (political adviser to General Lucius Clay and High Commissioner John J. McCloy) and, for the past year, director of the State Department's Bureau of German Affairs...
...protegés) were "innocent workers" falsely accused by "adventurists" who "cooked up repulsive materials ... to do harm to the Communist Party." The chief adventurist was one I. A. Rukhadze, former Minister of [Georgian] State Security, and, according to Radio Tiflis, "an enemy of the people . . . with inimical careerist interests." "By all kinds of intrigues," the announcement went on, Rukhadze "tried to arouse a feeling of national enmity" between Georgians and Great Russians. He was aided by A. I. Mgeladze, boss of the Georgian Communist Party, and Premier Z. Ketskhoveli-the men whom Stalin promoted only last year to replace...
...Without sounding out congressional sentiment, the President nominated Charles ("Chip") Bohlen, a top-ranking Foreign Service careerist, to be U.S. Ambassador to Moscow. Bad timing and bad staff work on the Bohlen case forced Dulles and Eisenhower to make a major effort to get the Bohlen nomination through (see below...
...case against John Carter Vincent, the State Department careerist who played a key role in the U.S.'s disastrous China policy, had two aspects: Was Vincent a Communist? Whether he was or wasn't, did he make serious misjudgments damaging to the U.S. national interest and helpful to the Red conquest of China...