Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...names of the five-star military leaders fill the headlines of history. But the U.S. Foreign Service has a five-star equivalent to the military, and the senior Foreign Service officer is Robert Daniel Murphy, whose profession is preventing trouble-and troubleshooting. In his almost 40 years of diplomatic service, Murphy has been everywhere, done everything, seen everyone. He has developed a charming exterior and a steely interior; he speaks -wherever he is-with the authority of his Government. For what Career Diplomat Murphy has meant and will mean to world politics, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Five-Star Diplomat...
...Turning to his traveling companion, Murphy began talking quietly, steadily of the historic trip just ending; rushed to the Middle East 29 days before, Murphy had traveled 18,575 miles, visited nine Middle East and European nations, in Lebanon alone met 45 times with government and rebel leaders. When Diplomat Murphy finished talking, his friend on the Columbine leaned toward him. "Bob," said the President of the U.S., returning to Washington after his United Nations speech, "you did a wonderful...
From Warm to Cold. Murphy's fire-fighting talents come from the diplomatic professionalism that has made him senior careerman of all the 12,585 State Department and Foreign Service professionals spread round the world in 77 embassies, three legations, 199 consulates and other outposts. Murphy knows the diplomatic rule book as well as anyone alive-and his professionalism tells him the proper time to throw it away. He can be a charming, top-hatted and white-gloved diplomat-or a deadly antagonist. Says an admiring British Commonwealth diplomat: "He is a joy to behold in action. I have...
...country is apt to fall to Nasser. The Israelis, unwilling to be surrounded by Nasser, may well march to the west bank of the Jordan River, to give themselves a more defensible border as well as 2,165 more square miles of territory. With obvious envy, a British diplomat noted that the U.S. evacuation from Lebanon will be relatively easy, "since it merely involves walking down to the beach." But in Jordan there is no easy way out. Said the diplomat: "We don't regret going into Jordan. But we regret having had to do it." At week...
Assessment: Chehab, says a top diplomat, "is an able, conscientious fence-sitter who sat there twelve years and kept the army together, and now believes he can sit there six years more and keep Lebanon together." Once in office, he will probably ask that U.S. forces be withdrawn. Anti-Communist and essentially pro-Western, he believes Lebanon cannot survive unless it works out a lasting relationship with Nasser. Chehab is likely to withdraw Chamoun's commitment to the Eisenhower Doctrine and reaffirm Lebanese neutrality among Arab lands. Nonetheless, Washington calls him the "best hope" for peace in Lebanon...