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DIED. ELBRIDGE DURBROW, 93, shrewd diplomat who for all his acumen could not maneuver the U.S. out of intemperate relations; in Walnut Creek, Calif. From the Moscow embassy, Durbrow witnessed the beginning of the cold war in the late 1940s. War seemed to shadow him; in 1957 he became ambassador to South Vietnam just in time to watch that region move toward conflagration...
Robert T. Durbrow Carmichael, Calif...
...Elbridge Durbrow, U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam from 1957 to 1961, agreed that release of the Pentagon papers has had a bad effect on the American people, who are now "more confused than ever...
...Durbrow, who said he had spent "almost 40 years in the diplomatic business," added that he supported Thailand's bombing of Vietnam because it was done "for freedom," and "I'm all for freedom...
...Thais to bomb," Durbrow said later, "so much the better for the American people...