Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...BOOKS) is the first major biographical work resulting from unrestricted access to the Adams Papers, currently being edited under a ten-year grant of $250,000 from TIME Inc. (TIME. Oct. 25, 1954). The vast and priceless collection of writings by Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams and Diplomat Charles Francis Adams is being microfilmed for circulation to libraries, private and public, and eventually will appear in 34 volumes of diary, 12 to 15 volumes of family correspondence and an even greater number, still unestimated. of general correspondence. Says Author Bemis, who won the Pulitzer Prize for a previous...
...easier to be a political novelist than Secretary of State. Robert Shaplen, onetime correspondent in the Far East, demonstrates in A Forest of Tigers that the novelist holds cards the diplomat could never hope to draw. The proving ground is Indo-China around 1950, when the Communists had fully shown their hand but had not yet begun their big push. How was the U.S. to handle its difficult French allies, faction-ridden Viet Nam, the everlasting intrigue, the demagogic appeal of the Reds...
...exhibitions with the Morgan Library to be held here and in New York. In inaugurating the series, the local museum staff found its inspiration in the recent publication of the definitive edition of Rubens' letters by the Harvard University Press. Nothing that the letters contain little about the painter-diplomat's family life or his art, the Museum has attempted to at least do something about the latter by composing an exhibit of Rubens' drawings and oil sketches from American collections...
Behind the ugly heat of radioed words, and the rounding up of youthful Cypriot firebrands, Britain's soldier-diplomat, Sir John Harding, continued negotiations with Cypriot Archbishop Makarios, spiritual shepherd and temporal leader (Ethnarch) of the Greek Cypriots. Begrudgingly, the British found themselves treating him like a head of state...
...that might give a campaign manager a few uneasy moments. Some may well be disturbed by the recollection of young Adlai in an Eton collar-though it is carefully explained that he did not like it. And yet, on the whole, Mrs. Elizabeth ("Buffie") Stevenson Ives. wife of Career Diplomat Ernest Ives (now retired), has managed to avoid both sisterly gush and campaign-year platitudes. Author Ives was helped by a professional magazine writer. Hildegarde Dolson, but the book shows an authentic freshness. Buffie also displays a wry humor, as when she tells of the Republican friend who suggested...