Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thirty years a civil servant, and ever the diplomat, 51-year-old Sir Hugh Foot, Britain's governor on Cyprus, last week turned salesman. His pitch: if the Greeks, the Turks, the Cypriots and the British themselves will all show restraint, Britain's new plan for limited self-government on the island can be made to work. Foot strolled unarmed through the tense Turkish quarter of Nicosia, appealing in person to startled Turk Cypriot shopkeepers and stallholders for calm. And to show the Greeks how ready he was to negotiate, Foot released the text of a secret offer...
...Pierre Pilimlin's government were shocked and disheartened by Pflimlin's appearance in the De Gaulle Cabinet. As for those outside France, who feared De Gaulle's well-known propensity for going it alone, they could take consolation in his choice for Foreign Minister, Career Diplomat Maurice Couve de Murville, a stanch supporter of NATO. At midnight of his first day in power, Premier de Gaulle lifted censorship (see PRESS...
Foreign Minister: Maurice Couve de Murville, 51, lawyer, financial expert, career diplomat. Son of a judge in Reims, and a Protestant, Couve de Murville became Inspector of Finance at 23. He escaped from Vichy France to North Africa during the war, served as Finance Minister under De Gaulle. After serving as Ambassador to Egypt and representative to NATO, he became Ambassador to the U.S. in 1955-56, but nearly lost his job when he angered Antoine Pinay by a U.S. radio interview. Foreign Minister Pinay had led a French walkout from the U. N. over Algeria, but Ambassador Couve...
...issued licenses for the immediate sale of small arms and munitions to Djakarta; the U.S. eagerly agreed to send Indonesia $5,500,000 worth of badly needed rice. All of these measures had been proposed even before the rebellion began by the then U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia, veteran Career Diplomat John Allison, whose reward had been replacement by Ambassador Jones. Washington then had more hopes and fears-fears that the Communists were about to take over Indonesia lock, stock and barrel; hopes that the rebels would be able to arrest the Communist drift...
...outbreak at that moment or had decreed its timing. He had merely fanned existing discontent beforehand, and his agents were prepared to ride it afterward. As Cairo, Damascus and Moscow radios dinned encouragement of the insurrection, a message crossed the Syrian border, on the person of an eccentric Belgian diplomat, addressed to persons unknown, in Beirut: "Fire at police, disarm agents. Continue shooting all day. Blow up the presidential palace. Kill whenever necessary; throw bombs from roofs and in streets. Burn a few cars during nights: this is indispensable. Take Tripoli as an example and do the same." Agitators need...