Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Still flaming across the Middle East was the unanswered question of whether the Arabs want stability more than they want Nasser and his dreams of Indian-Ocean-to-the-Atlantic-Ocean world empire. And at week's end that other air-age diplomat, Nikita Khrushchev, flew back from Peking after totally secret, portentous talks with Red China's Chairman Mao, sat down in Moscow and growled as though a peaceful settlement of anything was the farthest thing from his mind...
...Cabinet status). As a favor to Lodge, Ike let him name the deputy U.N. delegate. Lodge unhesitatingly picked shrewd, amiable James J. Wadsworth, then acting Civil Defense administrator. A boyhood friend of Cabot Lodge, Wadsworth, 53, is still his deputy, has proved to be a first-rate U.N. diplomat...
Last week the U.S. Government's patience was running out on another hugand-tug type of foreign diplomat in Washington. Name: Mikhail Alekseevich Menshikov, ambassador of the U.S.S.R., who has carried Dictator Khrushchev's stop-nuclear tests and let's-have-a-parley-at-the-summit propaganda to the U.S. public via TV press conferences, businessmen's dinners and cultural wingdings with such sincere style that he got the nickname of "Smiling Mike" (TIME, March 17 et seq.). Sample exchange: Q. How can we trust you on stopping nuclear tests when you violated the armistice...
Last month Menshikov was warned in a nice way by Under Secretary of State Robert Murphy, now busy with Middle East matters, that he was specifically violating diplomatic procedure by sending Soviet propaganda to members of Congress and key Government agencies, e.g., Vice President Nixon, Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, California Democratic Representative Jimmy Roosevelt, without channeling it through the State Department as required. Menshikov smilingly promised to look into the matter, did nothing. Last week the State Department let it be known that the U.S.'s final recourse in such a matter might be to declare such...
Lanky, affable Career Diplomat Robert Murphy is an old hand at applying diplomacy in the shadow of military force. An ace troubleshooter in France and North Africa during World War II, and later in the Trieste, Korea and Suez crises, Murphy last week moved unobtrusively about Beirut on his assignment as President Eisenhower's personal representative for negotiating a speedy political compromise among the little country's warring factions...