Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ambassador to Britain Winthrop Aldrich, a conservative banker turned progressive diplomat, decided to have a Washington's Birthday party for the housewarming of his official mansion, a cavernous Regency Park residence given to the U.S. Government by Five & Dime Heiress Barbara Mutton in 1946. Although Aldrich wanted everything "informal," invitations to 330 guests called for "evening dress and decorations," a sure tipoff that royalty would be present. With some 50 Scotland Yardmen and bobbies barring gate-crashers (including all newsmen), the regal parade was led by Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip and Queen Mother Elizabeth. After Aldrich whirled...
...succeed canny Career Diplomat Loy Henderson, now Deputy Under Secretary of State, as Ambassador to Iran, President Eisenhower last week picked canny Career Diplomat Julius Cecil Holmes, onetime insurance salesman, Army general and airline president...
...counselor and minister, returned to Washington as Secretary of State Dulles' specialist on the Trieste question. Last February he was indicted, along with Casey, 16 other associates and seven Casey corporations for illegally selling the ships to foreigners. Four of the companies paid fines, but the charges against Diplomat Holmes and other individuals were dropped. The State Department in effect has cleared Holmes of any taint in the tanker deal...
When Stalin died, Bulganin became one of the four first Vice Premiers, but appeared to take little part in the ensuing struggle for power. His oratory, though frequent, flowery and fiery, betrays no originality. "He is reasonable, intelligent and able," said an American diplomat who has met him often. But no Western observer rates Bulganin ,as a first-rate brain. A professional figurehead, he appears to have been chosen Premier because of his second-rate qualities, not in spite of them...
...President nominated Philip W. Bonsai, 51, a veteran diplomat, to be Ambassador to Colombia, and Newell Brown, 37, New Hampshire publisher and onetime secretary to Sherman Adams, to be Wage-Hour Administrator...