Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last Thursday, the President removed the Ambassadorship from domestic entanglements by recommending a capable, career diplomat, George V. Allen, for the post. But if the new Ambassador wishes to stop the recent dwindling of confidence in the U.S., he should intensify, not change, our present policy towards India...
...months as Premier of France, Antoine Pinay seldom saw a foreigner, and was, in the eyes of one diplomat, "absolutely innocent of foreign policy." From Bonn last week came a well-authenticated report that shed new light on the innocence of the little tanner from St. Chamond...
...visit to Formosa was a big, bright feather in the Nationalist cap. Its importance stemmed not only from his eminence as a philosopher, poet, diplomat and educator, but from the fact that he was once regarded as outside of and above the struggle between Communists and Kuomintang. After four years (1938-42) as Chiang's ambassador in Washington, he left his post because of a tiff with the wartime Chungking regime. In 1947 he said: "Liberal is a terrible term these days, so you'd better just call me an independent." He wrote a letter to "Dear...
Last week Dean Acheson flatly refused to dismiss Career Diplomat John Carter Vincent, the Old China Hand whose loyalty has been found in "reasonable doubt" by the President's Loyalty Review Board (TIME, Dec. 29). In a long memo to Harry Truman, the Secretary of State argued that he could not fire Vincent, as the LRB recommended, until he had "further guidance...
Another career diplomat, Foy David Kohler, was sharply disciplined by the State Department last week. A competent veteran of 21 years' service, once director of Voice of America and recently assigned to the department's important Policy Planning Staff, Kohler was arrested for drunkenness by Arlington. Va. police early last month. He and his wife Phyllis, motoring home from a party, ran into an Arlington telephone pole; Mrs. Kohler, who was at the wheel, was charged with drunken driving. In the car was Kohler's briefcase, containing secret documents which he was carrying home to study...