Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FOOD The First Battle In the up-to-date comfort of a vast glass-and-marble honeycomb on the edge of Rome, the U.N.'s 77-nation Food and Agriculture Organization met last week to talk about hunger. Binay Ranjan Sen, the former Indian diplomat who had just been re-elected FAO's director general, called for a speedup in "the fight against hunger and malnutrition," and touched the world on one of its rawest nerves...
...embassy in Bonn is one of the most exacting and sensitive posts in the diplomatic service. The ambassador must function both as a striped-trousered forward observer, peering over the Iron Curtain, and, at the same time, as a soothing agent for West Germany's indomitable old (83) Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. President Eisenhower's first choice to succeed retiring Ambassador David K. E. Bruce was Under Secretary of State Robert Murphy, the U.S.'s ablest diplomatic troubleshooter; Murphy bowed out in favor of retirement after 38 years in the Foreign Service (TIME, Nov. 9). Last week...
...whenever the text sags, the illustrations more than make up for it; Artist Knight has provided the most arresting views of Moscow since Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev (was great turn-of-century painter). All in all, is possible here to have fun with Eloise, in former days little girl, now diplomat...
Spokesman for the important policy change was the U.S.'s No. 2 diplomat, Under Secretary of State (for Economic Affairs) C. Douglas Dillon. "Either we move ahead to get rid of outmoded trade restrictions," he told the 54 nations represented at the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) meeting in Tokyo, "or we can expect a resurgence of protectionism and restrictive action." Two days later he told members of the America-Japan Society: "During the era of the so-called 'dollar shortage' we were disposed to be passive about foreign discriminations against our exports...
Murphy, a career diplomat extraordinary, was retiring because 1) he had just reached retirement age of 65; 2) after serving more than 30 of his 42 years of service abroad, he had no great interest in accepting a presidential offer as Ambassador to West Germany; and 3) he had an attractive offer to work in private industry. In accepting the resignation "with deep regret," the President wrote: "I am aware of the vast contribution you have made on behalf of all of us in your efforts to advance a just and secure peace...