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...well-stocked closet, not only to prove that she could manage the tricks of a brand-new trade (everything from learning the names and faces of a hundred or so ambassadors by rote to making sure to seat Greeks and Turks at separate tables to remembering that the chargé d'affaires of the smallest principality outranks a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense) but also to find her way in an unfamiliar milieu that demanded every ounce of charm she possessed. Luckily, Mrs. Hand has charm on tap. Her first time out (at the annual diplomatic reception given last...
...Navy Department, Forrestal began his personal war on Communism. Russian secretiveness and arrogance had aroused his suspicions. He put his staff to work investigating Communist infiltration in the U.S., collected reams of writings on Communism, encouraged George Kennan, chargé d'affaires at the U.S. embassy in Moscow, to write his celebrated "Mr. X" article, which laid the basis for the policy of containment. In 1946 Forrestal persuaded Truman to send warships to the eastern Mediterranean in a show of strength, thus paving the way for U.S. aid to Greece and Turkey. By 1947 Forrestal-with the help...
Rage & Recognition. Worried for the safety of American citizens on the is land, U.S. Chargé d'Affaires Frederick Picard quickly evacuated the Project Mercury Space Tracking Station outside Zanzibar Town and sent dozens of official personnel and dependents off to Tanganyika on a U.S. destroyer. But four American newsmen (including TIME'S William Smith) arrived in Zanzibar to provide a target for the government's wrath. The reporters sailed in on an Arab dhow and began asking questions. Karume, who wanted no visitors, had them placed under house arrest in the Zanzibar Hotel. When Picard intervened...
Died. Selden Chapin. 63. U.S. career diplomat. Chargé d'Affaires to De Gaulle's wartime Free French government, both in Algiers and in Paris after the 1944 liberation; Minister to Hungary in 1949. where he was declared persona non grata for "conspiring" with Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty; Ambassador to Panama in 1955, where he renegotiated the "in perpetuity" agreement under which the U.S. controls the Canal; of a heart attack; in San Juan, Puerto Rico. At the time of his death. Chapin was on his way to meet his wife on her return from the marriage of their...
...have become ardent supporters of museums, attentive readers of art news. Scarcely had Leonardo's Mona Lisa been removed from its shrouding of maroon drapery (which the gallery force had christened "Mona's kimona"), when a courtly ceremony took place in Washington's National Gallery. Italian Chargé d'Affaires Gian Luigi Milesi Ferretti, Chief Justice Earl Warren and Attorney General Robert Kennedy stood before a throng of art enthusiasts to unveil two small paintings on wood illustrating the labors of Hercules by the 15th century Italian painter Pollaiuolo, recently recovered in California after having been...