Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week's abrupt dismissal of career diplomat John Paton Davies on security grounds has heightened the atmosphere of tension in the State Department and may further discourage qualified college students from entering the foreign service, three University faculty members warned yesterday...
...that the mysterious stranger was not an explorer (young Henderson had just finished reading Stanley's account of his adventures in Africa), but the memory of the occasion stuck. Years later, after a World War I hitch in Europe with the Red Cross, Henderson decided to try a diplomatic career himself. Last week, in a ceremony in Washington's Constitution Hall, President Eisenhower gave Diplomat Henderson the State Department's highest honor, the Distinguished Service Award...
...when the Saar was not concerned, Mendès was all reason and optimism. He politely declined the chairmanship of the four-power meeting, saying that this was only a continuation of the London Conference, and Sir Anthony should preside. Soon other diplomats were swarming into Paris (and it took a practiced diplomat to know which was a meeting of the Big Four, the Big Nine, or the Big Fourteen). Smoothly, as if he had not a reservation in the world, Mendès joined with the other four members of the Brussels Treaty, plus Canada...
...year gift of $250,000 from LIFE, a group of historians will edit the papers for the Harvard University Press, will also make them available in microfilm to 16 U.S. libraries. Among the items in the collection: the complete diaries of Presidents John and John Quincy and Diplomat Charles Francis; letters and manuscripts of Historians Brooks and Henry; family correspondence with everyone from George Washington and Abraham Lincoln to the Duke of Wellington...
...paper, concludes Stuart, was "an accurate display of the materials on which the U.S. Government relied [for] its decisions . . . What had been omitted were materials . . . which had not been relied upon." The implication is strong that his own advice was not relied upon; it is as close as polite Diplomat Stuart will come to saying that the paper was a dishonest document...