Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Karl Lott Rankin, 54, chargé d'affaires in Taipei, Formosa, to be Ambassador to Nationalist China. A seasoned diplomat (Prague, Athens, Vienna, Belgrade, Brussels, Cairo, Canton, Hong Kong and other posts), Rankin has been Ambassador to China in all but name since August 1950, when he took over for ailing Ambassador J. Leighton Stuart...
...believe," said Diplomat Tsiang, "that an independent offensive on the part of my government will be welcomed by our fellow countrymen on the mainland. Such an offensive is not in the nature of the conquest of mainland China by the island of Formosa. It is in the nature of 8,000,000 Chinese on Formosa going to the mainland to help the 450 million Chinese there to overthrow the Communist yoke which they themselves wish to overthrow...
Pearson's statement represented no fundamental change in Canada's Far Eastern policy. That policy, so far as it concerns China, is one of acceptance of the Communist conquest. Explains one Canadian diplomat: "The key word is passivity...
John Moors Cabot, 51, a veteran career diplomat whose last post was Minister to Finland, arrived this week in Caracas, Venezuela to head the U.S. delegation to the Inter-American Economic and Social Council. Careerman Cabot, an affable old Latin American hand who has served in posts outside the hemisphere since 1947, is almost sure to become the new U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American affairs...
Harvard-and-Oxford-trained, lanky Diplomat Cabot is a member of the famous Boston family. His most publicized diplomatic success occurred in 1930 when, as third secretary in the Dominican Republic, he raced into the hinterland in his Oakland runabout to intercept an advancing revolutionary army and win its leaders to a plan for averting bloody warfare in the island. Rising rapidly thereafter from one Latin American post to another, he acted as chargé d'affaires in Buenos Aires in 1946, before moving on to such international hotspots as Belgrade, Shanghai and Helsinki...