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...CASSIM Badulla, Ceylon...
From S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike, Ceylon's Prime Minister, came the merest suggestion of a deadpan snicker. Newly appointed U.S. Ambassador to Ceylon Maxwell H. Gluck-the businessman who could not put his tongue to Bandaranaike's name nor pronounce Jawaharlal Nehru's when a Senate committee ambushed him (TIME, Aug. 12)-should not fret about his pronunciation difficulties, said the Prime Minister. Observed the Oxford-educated Bandaranaike dryly: "I can't pronounce his name either. I don't know whether it should be pronounced 'Click' or 'Gluck' [correct: Gluck]. I shouldn...
Maxwell Gluck, Ambassador-designate to Ceylon, who "brought glee to Democrats, made Republicans glower when he admitted that he could not "call off" the name of Ceylon's Prime Minister Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike (TIME, Aug. 12). Said Dulles of this incident: "Now, the question of the selection of any particular person depends primarily upon whether he has integrity of character, whether he has a sharp and quick intelligence, and whether he is genuinely devoted to the public service. We believe that out of those three qualities can be made a competent and efficient ambassador worthy to represent...
...prominent Frenchman, explaining France's position in Algeria. Emile Roche, president of the Economic Council, is already in Buenos Aires. Christian Pineau will go to Brazil, Senate President Gaston Monnerville (a Negro) to Peru, and Foreign Office Under Secretary Maurice Faure to Indonesia, India, Pakistan and Ceylon...
After a series of screenings, interviews and FBI checks, Gluck found himself appointed Ambassador to Ceylon. Early in July, he appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and met up disastrously with Arkansas' William Fulbright. The Senator from Arkansas asked Gluck how much he had contributed to the Republican Party in 1956. Gluck admitted to "$20,000 or $30,000." (The record shows $26,500.) Then Fulbright asked how much Gluck contributed in 1952, and Gluck said "around $10,000." By then, even a nearsighted Bald Iggle would have spotted the hatchet in Fulbright's hand...