Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...diplomat who knew him well says that if Mikoyan had emigrated to the U.S. he would now be "heading his own export-import firm with a triplex apartment on Park Avenue." But ex-Ambassador Walter ("Beedle") Smith, less impressed, says, "Take away his ZIS limousine and Mikoyan would look like just another rug peddler in Shepheard's Hotel in Cairo...
...slick manipulation was not enough: it took a tank-led invasion. The final repression was the Red army's idea, and at least once Marshal Zhukov showed himself relentless when the others hesitated. "We tried all we could to find another solution," Mikoyan said later to a Western diplomat. "I myself advised the acceptance of one Hungarian ultimatum after another, but I couldn't advise accepting the last...
...Laurent regime. In that office he gave Canada (pop. 16.5 million) a great say in Western affairs; e.g., the U.N.'s Middle East police force was a result of a Pearson resolution. His only serious political trouble occurred at home, when he was charged, after the suicide of Diplomat Herbert Norman (TIME, April 15 et seq.), with covering up Norman's Communist connections-a factor in the Liberals' electoral defeat. Mike Pearson is a proven vote getter in his own riding, is better known than any other Liberal except St. Laurent. He should easily capture the leadership...
Espionage: He and she married in 1938 at her country place in Virginia, set up homes in Manhattan and Ridgefield, Conn., moved amid a milieu of bums and bohemians, philanthropists, philosophers, progressives and an odd Communist diplomat. Both scurried to sign up for Communist-line outfits, e.g., American Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born. American Peace Mobilization, National Council of Arts, Sciences and Professions. He led a Communist-backed protest march (on the train) from New York City to Albany (1947) to urge Govenor Dewey to freeze rent controls in New York. Both were heady for Wallace...
They were joined by U.S. Deputy Under Secretary of State Loy W. Henderson, a veteran Middle East diplomat who had hustled off to Istanbul from Washington (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Henderson's trip would serve to quietly underscore the fact that though the U.S. is not a full member of the Baghdad Pact, she has joined its military committee, and can be expected to participate in any military discussions by pact members...