Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...legged Angus Ward was always a bit of a trial. When Angus joined the service in 1925, after a varied career as a lumber salesman, army officer, exporter and timber evaluator for the Bureau of Internal Revenue, an Ivy League degree was assumed to be part of a U.S. diplomat's equipment. In such company Canadian-born Angus Ward, who spoke with a Scottish burr and who had no degree at all, stuck out like a sore thumb...
London seethed at the implied rebuke in White's statement, but the next development brought British reaction to the boiling point. Out of Athens came reports that Career Diplomat Cavendish Welles Cannon, U.S. Ambassador to Greece, had followed up the Washington statement with an expression of "sympathetic concern" for Greece, and praise for Greek "dignity and statesmanship" in the affair. British newspapers promptly roared that this was an insult to Great Britain (a "kick in the teeth," said London's Daily Mail); Sir Roger Makins, Britain's Ambassador to the U.S., officially demanded an explanation...
...CRIMSON is sponsoring the talk which is free and open to the public. Malia is the first foreigner not a diplomat or journalist, who has spent as long as five months in the Soviet Union. His talk this evening will be his only extended public discussion of his Russian tour...
Restyling the Future. With regimented unity, the Congress delegates approved the new bosses' nominations for the powerful Central Committee-53 of the 133 names were new, many of them Khrushchev proteges. Among those promoted: Diplomat Andrei (Stony-Face the Younger) Gromyko and Police Boss Ivan Serov...
George V. Allen, Assistant Secretary of State, affirmed that the strongest appeal to the foreign service official is "the very type of work that he does." Allen enumerated varying experiences, security, good retirement, and salary compensations, as a few of the advantages available to the diplomat...