Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Nelson Trusler Johnson, 67, retired U.S. career diplomat and specialist on the Far East, onetime (1927-29) Assistant Secretary of State, Ambassador to China from 1929 to 1941; of a heart attack; in Washington...
Both Merle Fainsod, professor of Government, and Adam Ulam, assistant professor of Government--authorities on Soviet affairs--agreed with Langer's evaluations. They pointed out that Vishinsky was never popular with the United States. Both felt he would probably be replaced by some high ranking diplomat...
Contagious Enthusiasm. In his bustling life, Monnet, the son of a brandymaker in the French town of Cognac, has sold bonds on Wall Street, peddled wine to fur trappers of Hudson Bay, liquidated a Swedish match company and rebuilt a Chinese railroad, served in wartime Washington as a British diplomat (his passport was specially endorsed by "Winston S. Churchill"). But his finest hour came in 1950, when he persuaded French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman to propose the supranational coal-steel pool. "The pooling of coal and steel is but a beginning," Monnet argued. "The union of the peoples of Europe...
This week came the announcement: "The R.C.C. has today relieved Mohammed Naguib"; he was banished to a comfortable house in the suburbs. The Cairo streets took the news quietly. "That's like Nasser," said a diplomat. "He lets them dangle until they're ready to drop anyhow. Now nobody cares...
...another point, Molotov raised his glass to "better understanding" between the U.S. and Russia. "Chip" Bohlen responded handsomely by describing Comrade Molotov as "the most experienced diplomat in this room," recalled Molotov's incognito visit to Washington as "Mr. Brown" during World War II, and toasted "his next visit to Washington." Then Bohlen leaned over to reporters behind him and made it plain that he was not really extending an invitation...