Word: envoys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Belgium's Prince de Ligne, in a gilded coach flanked by Moorish lancers, was the first to ride to the royal palace and present credentials. The stocky, mustachioed, gold-laced envoy had hurried from his former post in New Delhi: "Though I come from farthest away," he crowed, "I wanted to be first, and I made it." Hard on his heels trailed The Netherlands' Count Willem van Rechteren Limpurg. Then followed the U.S.'s Stanton Griffis, riding to his audience with Franco in the old horse-drawn coach used by Minister Washington Irving more than a century...
...spring of 1946, a little man named Hussein Ala, envoy from Iran, stood before the U.N. Security Council and unflinchingly insisted that the Russian army get out of his country. Sullenly, the Red army withdrew. The Communist puppet government of Azerbaijan in northern Iran collapsed. This was the first important postwar setback for Communist aggression-and the first great post-war symbol of the free world's strength. Thoughtful men, while they rejoiced, realized that the victory would be empty unless the U.S. moved rapidly to aid Iran, which was economically prostrate and politically shaky...
...down the corridors at Lake Success, in & out of at least a dozen meetings. Red China and Red Korea had answered Rau's petition for a Communist military halt at the 38th parallel by sending North Korean troops across the parallel (TIME, Dec. 18). India's undeterred envoy now proposed to ask for a ceasefire...
...week's end, the Assembly was still in desultory debate. Sir Benegal Rau had received no reply from Peking. But from Peking's envoy, Wu, he heard that his petition was getting full "consideration," that Red China was "desirous of bringing the fighting to an end as soon as possible." Skeptical newsmen asked: "By conquest or negotiation?" Rau just smiled...
When reporters asked for a comment on his chat with President Truman, Myron C. Taylor, former White House envoy to the Vatican, commented: In these days, "there is altogether too much talk about everything...