Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bureau chief in Prague. As expected, all twelve were convicted; one was sentenced to death, another to life imprisonment and the rest got long prison terms. In their latest attempt to justify Oatis' imprisonment, the Reds played it safe. Not a single Western newsman or diplomat was allowed into the courtroom, and no one, other than the Communists, knew whether Oatis was even there, much less what he said...
When Oliver Edmund Clubb, 51, retired from the U.S. Foreign Service last month, the business of his previous suspension and clearance seemed all settled and done with. A veteran diplomat who became chief of the State Department's Office of Chinese Affairs, Clubb got into trouble after Whittaker Chambers testified that he had once (1932) seen him in the offices of the Communist New Masses. In the course of defending himself against this not very grave charge, Clubb produced his personal diaries. These contained very candid entries about the Foreign Service and about Clubb's colleagues. These convinced...
...Presidential Aspirant Harold Stassen, Ex-Diplomat Eugene Dooman, Professors William McGovern, Kenneth Colegrove and Karl Wittfogel variously testified that Lattimore, Far East specialist and Director of the Walter Hines Page School of International Relations at Johns Hopkins, followed a line favorable to the Communists, and that his ideas had powerful backing in the State Department...
...power-e.g., having warned the nation last fall of mounting Russian strength, he got the Joint Chiefs of Staff (of which he is a member) to approve an increase in Air Force strength from 95 to 143 wings. Yet he has generally been enough of a diplomat to avoid serious open wrangling with the Army and Navy...
...Diplomat John Foster Dulles warned tellingly of the free world's vulnerability in the Far East. "There is no area," he said, "where unity is so greatly needed or where lack of it is so dangerous." In an address at Princeton University, Dulles pressed the thought further: "The attitude of the free peoples is almost wholly defensive . . . The Communism of Soviet Russia and its satellites represents today the active, dynamic element and the free world represents the static, passive element... The U.S. ... can be destroyed by forces that, in themselves, seem weak -if those forces are active...