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...years of sensitive diplomatic assignments-Rome, Paris, Moscow, Madrid, London, Rio de Janeiro-U.S. Career Diplomat James Clement Dunn won wide respect as an urbane, wise, influential foreign-service officer. As U.S. Ambassador to Italy (1946-52), he merited the State Department's Distinguished Service Award for helping defeat the Communists in the critical 1948 elections (partially by dramatizing U.S. aid). As Ambassador to Spain (1953-55), he helped develop the new U.S. policy of good relations with Franco. Moving on to booming Brazil in February 1955, he concentrated on touring remote jungles and backwaters by jeep, plane...
Fire Escape. In Milwaukee, charged with setting fire to the apartment building where he worked, aging (69) Janitor Clement Zeller explained: "The work was getting too much for me, and I didn't see how I could...
Divided Impression. The fate of the prisoners, and Nikita Khrushchev's thin skin on the subject, seemed to be the most lasting impression of the trip. In the London Star Labor's Elder Statesman Clement Attlee recorded his personal impressions of B. and K. Bulganin he had found "suave, restrained, and very easy to converse with. He gave an impression of reserved strength," but Khrushchev "struck me as a man who was not really very sure of himself, and therefore tried to give the impression of being a strong, rough man." Both Tito and China...
...British thought that such documentation would numb the shock which the deportation caused at home and abroad, they were mistaken. Cried British Labor Leader Hugh Gaitskell: "This seems to me an act of folly." Echoed the Liberal Party's Leader Clement Davies: "An act of madness." While imperialist-minded newspapers like Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express approved, the Manchester Guardian editorialized: "By this action the British government will have made Archbishop Makarios more than ever the leader of his people . . . Now there can be no settlement...
...Jesuitical trick." The Jesuits have as persistently and meticulously fought the charge and elucidated the oft-small but decisive difference between unprincipled expediency and principled pragmatism. The order has suffered reverses and reprisals. In 1773, under political pressure from the courts of Spain, Portugal, Naples and France, Pope Clement XIV suppressed the order, and in the next 40 years it dwindled in membership from 23,000 to 600. During that time, when many Jesuits sought peace in the new U.S., John Adams warned Thomas Jefferson against them: "If ever there was a body of men who merited eternal damnation...