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...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...
...world got set for Mossy's next move: kicking out the British chargé d'affaires. After all, some weeks before, the Iranian Foreign Ministry had borrowed from the British embassy library a book on the complicated protocol of severing diplomatic relations, and still had not returned the book. Soon it became clear that Mossadegh was stalling. He did not really want to break off diplomatic relations; he just hoped that the West (meaning the U.S.), shocked by his radio statement, would break down and come through with a good offer. It was the old Mossadegh game again...
...Werner von Barge, member of the Bonn Foreign Office legal staff, with ambassadorial rank, had served as Nazi minister to Belgium, where he helped to round up the Jews, later went to Paris as chargé d'affaires, where he did nothing to prevent the shooting of hostages. Suspended...