Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slit trenches around France's ten Tunisian bases. Three men set up a machine gun at the canal at the entrance to the great naval base of Bizerte to bar the entrance of further French vessels. At other bases, food supplies were shut off. When a French diplomat formally requested permission to revictual the garrison, Vice Premier Bahi Ladgham told him coldly: "Leave Tunisia and you can find all the food you need." Should the French try to force their way in or out of the bases, warned Bourguiba, "it will mean war." Breathing defiance, he took...
Died. Sir Charles Mendl, 86, Britain's longtime (1926-40) Paris diplomatic press attache who was known as a mystery-cloaked, behind-the-scenes diplomat; after long illness; in Paris. After the death of his U.S.-born hostess-interior decorator wife, Elsie de Wolfe Mendl, who lorded it over the international smart set for decades by splashing lavish parties in Paris, Beverly Hills and Versailles, he married (at 79) a 37-year-old violinist, who died a year...
...Third Eye readers were fans. Among the dissidents were British Author Marco Pallis, whose Peaks and Lamas was a bestselling account of his Tibetan mountain climbing in the 1930s, and Diplomat Hugh Richardson, who had served as chief of the British mission in Lhasa for eight years before and after World War II. They compiled lists of Rampa inaccuracies, e.g., mention of gold candlesticks, unknown in Tibet; description of Rampa's mother wearing a single earring, a privilege restricted to male officials of a certain rank. Joining forces with Austrian Author Heinrich Harrer (Seven Years in Tibet), Pallis...
...though Lim Chin Siong is still lodged behind the towering grey walls of Changi prison, his colleagues on the outside are still working untiringly to build up popular support for his People's Action Party. "Singapore," said a Western diplomat recently, "may wake up one morning soon to find itself with the first democratically elected Communist government in history...
Died. Claude Gernade Bowers, 79, New Deal diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Spain (1933-39) and Chile (1939-53), old-time newspaper editorial writer (New York World), onetime (1928) eloquent Democratic National Convention keynoter, historian (Jefferson and Hamilton) and cultural sentimentalist (The Spanish Adventures of Washington Irving), whose Spanish memoirs (My Mission to Spain) blamed Western democracies' Red mirages for dumping the Spanish republic into Fascist hands; in Manhattan...