Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Quito. Scheduled for reassignment to Ecuador, where the post is open: Christian Magelssen Ravndal, 57, born in Syria, son of a U.S. diplomat, in the Foreign Service since 1920, with duty in Germany, Canada, Sweden, Latin America. Big, rumpled Chris Ravndal, whose great forte is public relations-he likes to get out into the back country and put across the U.S. point of view-served his first ambassadorial assignment in Uruguay, is an authority on Latin American affairs. All the shifts left the State Department abuzz at week's end with one big unanswered question: Who replaces Allen...
...face the full work load. In a short time, all the symptoms reappeared and some new and frightening ones developed. Her fingernails became brittle, broke at a slight tap. She began to lose blonde hair by the brushful. Her teeth were noticeably loosening. Worst of all for a diplomat, she had become irritable. She was forced to spend more and more time abed, and she always felt the worse...
...days of ruffled-shirt diplomacy, when Talleyrand and Prince Metternich were in 19th century flower, a diplomat needed a backstairs source in the palace, a talent for intrigue and a good cook. Big powers acted in concert, and the small powers were expected to know their place. The financial side of diplomacy was a relatively simple matter of buying allies or buying off potential enemies. In mid-20th century diplomacy, financial dealings must be disguised under such inoffensive names as mutual assistance, economic cooperation or foreign aid, and economic aid has increasingly become regarded as a debt that rich nations...
...even for a Soviet diplomat, success is apt to depend less on personal skill than on the international appeal of the policies he is obliged to follow. Right from the start of his Middle Eastern tour, Shepilov ran into one setback after another. In Cairo, Shepilov's indication that Russia was prepared to underwrite the entire cost of the High Dam at Aswan was received with polite evasiveness by his old friend Lieut. Colonel Nasser, who, up until now at least, has indicated a clear preference for having the U.S., Britain and the World Bank finance...
...journalistic methods is to a large extent the legacy of Kiyoshi Togasaki, a San Francisco-born newsman (University of California, '20) who ran the paper for 14 years until his retirement from active management last January. He was succeeded as president by Shintaro Fukushima, 49, a tough onetime diplomat. Fukushima is one of the West's staunchest supporters in Japan. Says he: "The only way Japan can live is in the sphere of the free world. We'll continue to say that in our editorials...