Word: diplomatic
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This week Menshikov will leave Washington, to be replaced by Anatoly F. Dobrynin, a skilled diplomat and an old U.S. hand. Dobrynin, a protégé of Gromyko's, was in the Soviet embassy in Washington for three years (11952-55) and served one year as minister-counselor. After returning to Russia, he went to the United Nations as under secretary to the late Dag Hammarskjold - and the highest ranking Russian on the U.N. staff. In 1960, he returned to Moscow, where he took charge of the American desk of the Soviet Foreign Ministry. A tall Ukrainian with...
...ambitious West German diplomat more or less went into business for himself last week and created a major international flap over Berlin. Bonn's Ambassador to Moscow is stocky little Hans Anton Kroll, 63, a brusque, elbowy diplomat who is widely disliked in the diplomatic world for such incidents as calling the Japanese "half apes," or using embassy secretaries as waitresses at cocktail parties. More seriously, Kroll plugs German rapprochement with Russia. "We must take the détente bus before it leaves with out us," he insists. "We must establish good enough relations with Moscow so that...
Pechersky's alleged crime: passing intelligence information to agents of a foreign embassy during religious services. The embassy was Israel's, and the agent was Diplomat Yaakov Sharett, son of ex-Premier Moshe Sharett, who was expelled by the Russians earlier this year. In part, the imprisonment of the Jewish leaders seemed like retaliation for the sentencing in Israel of several "agents of foreign powers" as spies in recent months. But clearly it was also a renewed attack on "cosmopolitanism." Last week, as word leaked out that three more Jews had been jailed, the Russians seemed embarrassed...
...epic force" with which he plumbed "the depths of the tortured South Slavic soul," Yugoslavia's Ivo Andric, 69, won the Nobel Prize for literature. The second author-diplomat tapped in two years (1960 recipient: French Poet St. John Perse) and the first of his countrymen ever honored by the Swedish Academy, the unassuming, owlish-looking Serb was Yugoslav minister to Berlin when the Nazis invaded his country in 1941. Abandoning public life, he settled down to write a sweeping Bosnian trilogy, completed The Bridge on the Drina, a history-haunted hymn to his native land, while...
...sherry cabinet in Harvard Yard long since turned over to another president, his diplomat's striped pants put into mothballs, the quiet New Englander embarked on a new career-unofficial Inspector General of U.S. Education. Dr. James Bryant Conant toured high schools, investigated curriculums and teachers, and in 1959 mildly concluded that the U.S. high school could be improved "with no radical change." But then Conant got around to taking a look at slum education. His report, Slums and Suburbs (McGraw-Hill; $3.95), published last week, shows how incensed a former Harvard president...