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...internal affairs. For months the U.S. had suffered in relative silence while Fidel Castro's Cuban government made a mockery of personal legal rights, suppressed newspapers, confiscated property and howled at the U.S. such epithets as "bandit, hypocrite, imperialist beast and thief." Secretary Herter gave the Cuban chargé d'affaires a good dressing down for the direct insults, but it was President Eisenhower who, after long restraint, finally passed public judgment on internal Cuban affairs. Writing to Chilean students who had asked about U.S.-Cuban policy, Ike said: "The idea of intervention into Cuban affairs...
...first, Secretary of State Christian Herter offered Castro a diplomatic out for his undiplomatic language, laid the outburst to "emotional strain" over the disaster. But when his words only increased the din of epithets, even Herter's patience was tried. He summoned Enrique Patterson, Cuba's chargé d'affaires, to the State Department and read him one of the strongest protests the U.S. has issued in recent years...
...books and with style. Letters to a British ambassador abroad must always end thus: "I am, with great truth and respect, Sir, Your Excellency's obedient Servant." In accord with British status symbolism, "instead of 'respect,' the British minister gets 'regard,' and a British chargé d'affaires must content himself with the 'great truth' alone...
...event seem as unremarkable as possible, Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd announced to the House of Commons in his most toneless voice last week that "the governments of the United Arab Republic and the United Kingdom have agreed to re-establish diplomatic relations at the level of chargé d'affaires." Harried, tight-lipped Selwyn Lloyd is the last survivor in office of the luckless foursome of Eden, Lloyd, Mollet and Pineau, who together planned the ill-fated invasion of Suez...
...request, Ambassador Douglas MacArthur II made some discreet inquiries, assured Porter that he was still welcome. He was. Although Chiang was, unsurprisingly, too preoccupied to see him, the top officials of the Nationalist government turned out to greet Porter at a dinner at the home of the U.S. chargé d'affaires, on the day of his arrival. Sensing a certain "strain in the air," Porter opened the conversation jovially: "I suppose that if I convince you of my point of view, you'll all be shot." A glacial silence descended on the party, and Porter returned...