Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Legend in the Kampongs. At his last press conference, Templer introduced his successor. He is capable Sir Donald McGillivray, 47, the Scottish diplomat who had been Templer's political deputy since 1952. McGillivray's appointment symbolized the changeover from a largely military to a mainly political emergency in Malaya. Said Templer generously: "I couldn't have done without...
...doughty Foreign Minister Georges Bidault to resist arrogant Communist demands without repudiation from Paris. Likewise, stalling-plus the military threat to the Red River Delta (see below}-gave urgency to Bidault's insistent demands for help from the U.S. Warned Roger Seydoux, France's No. 2 diplomat in the U.S.: "France will not continue to be the foot soldier of the free world In Southeast Asia. The free nations will have to join the fight, not only with planes and ships, but also with troops." The U.S. replied with preliminary, tentative conditions: France must give Viet...
...raised against his policies. Even the far left New Statesman and Nation has hailed him as "the new darling of the Labor Left." Eden obviously relishes his role in Geneva, delights in recapturing the glamour of his League-of-Nations days. His friends picture him as the only real diplomat on the Western side. Is he not the only one who can lunch with the U.S.'s Bedell Smith or France's Bidault, yet take tea with Chou En-lai and dine with Molotov? The British newspapers are running over with enthusiasm for these exploits, without stopping...
Finally the pressure of alarmed French residents in Morocco and their friends in France became so great that Premier La-niel made his move. Last week, after considering a number of generals, diplomats, politicians and hacks, the government picked a civilian, Career Diplomat Francis Lacoste, 48, to be the eleventh Resident General since Morocco became a French protectorate...
Morocco's nationalists, many of whom would rather negotiate than fight, were heartened by Diplomat Lacoste's appointment. Said one: "Lacoste has always showed himself to be understanding. Perhaps we can take up the dialogue with him again." But Le Monde expressed the prevailing mood' of Paris: "Whatever his qualities, the simple change of an individual cannot, in a situation so serious, have a magic effect. The results will depend on the policy adopted." For the momentj Paris had no policy to offer...