Word: charg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...internationalization prevented them from doing anything that would acknowledge Jerusalem as Israel's capital. The French ambassador, who much prefers Jerusalem's cool heights to raucous Tel Aviv, longed to transfer, but to his request Paris replied: "Coordinate your actions with the U.S. and Britain." The Italian chargé d'affaires responded to Sharett's invitation by offering to buy the Foreign Minister's Tel Aviv house now that Sharett was moving. Upshot: of the 25 emissaries accredited to Israel, only one-the Netherlands minister -is now in Jerusalem, and he has lived there...
...Four Soviet officials and their wives came early and stayed late at a cocktail party given by U.S. Chargé d'Affaires Jacob D. Beam...
...Walter S. (for Spencer) Robertson, 59, first-family Virginia investment banker and sometime China hand. A Democrat (who liked Ike in '52), Robertson went to work for the Government during World War II, served as chief of the Lend-Lease mission to Australia, then as embassy counselor and chargé d'affaires in China's wartime capital, Chungking. In 1946 he headed the truce enforcement commission set up by the Marshall mission. After Marshall's makeshift appeasement failed, Robertson quit the foreign service, went back to banking with the conviction that the Chinese Communists were "ruthless...
...Karl Lott Rankin, 54, chargé d'affaires in Taipei, Formosa, to be Ambassador to Nationalist China. A seasoned diplomat (Prague, Athens, Vienna, Belgrade, Brussels, Cairo, Canton, Hong Kong and other posts), Rankin has been Ambassador to China in all but name since August 1950, when he took over for ailing Ambassador J. Leighton Stuart...
...third secretary in the Dominican Republic, he raced into the hinterland in his Oakland runabout to intercept an advancing revolutionary army and win its leaders to a plan for averting bloody warfare in the island. Rising rapidly thereafter from one Latin American post to another, he acted as chargé d'affaires in Buenos Aires in 1946, before moving on to such international hotspots as Belgrade, Shanghai and Helsinki...