Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the President also: ¶Appointed 1) able Career Diplomat John M. Allison to be Ambassador to Japan; 2) Arthur F. Burns, a Vienna-born Columbia professor to be his economic adviser; 3) Rear Admiral Lewis L. Strauss, financial adviser to the Rockefellers and former member of the Atomic Energy Commission, to be White House liaison ad viser on atomic energy matters; 4) Douglas MacArthur II, longtime Foreign Service officer, nephew of the general, to be counselor for the State Department...
Since late 1951, the loyalty of John Carter Vincent, career diplomat who helped shape the disastrous U.S. China policy of the '40s, has been under heavy attack and review. Three times a State Department board cleared him. Then, last December, President Harry Truman's own board found reasonable doubt of Vincent's loyalty (chiefly because of his proCommunist, anti-Nationalist views on China) and recommended his dismissal. Dean Acheson let the case hang over for the new Administration...
Dulles announced that he (personally) had told Vincent how he felt, and that Vincent had resigned as minister to Morocco and diplomatic agent at Tangier. Under the retirement system of the Foreign Service, the ex-diplomat will collect a yearly pension...
Under De Gasperi's private urgings and Adenauer's public alarms, Georges Bidault, the diplomat with the Mona Lisa smile, announced that France had no intention of reneging on the EDC idea, which it had proposed in the first place. It considered its "protocols" to be not amendments to the treaty, said Bidault, but only "interpretive" addenda which need not be ratified, need not even cause any delay in prompt ratification of the treaty in the six West European Parliaments. What is more, said he, France is perfectly willing to consider changes in the "protocols" themselves...
Tough Talk. Last week the U.S., fearful that even the sometime-peace was now about to blow up, stepped into the picture. In Tel Aviv, U.S. Ambassador Monnett B. Davis, a quiet, methodical career diplomat of the old school, handed Israel a note that was diplomatic but plain. The U.S., it said, is deeply concerned over the recent Israeli forays over the border, and it could only conclude that they are inspired by calculated Israeli policy. A similar but much milder note of caution was handed to the Jordanians...