Word: envoys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...diplomats were expected to be aware of all phases of diplomacy before they came to Washington. Not so today. They need help, and this is what I am here for." One highly important help is Sevilla-Sacasa's method for introducing a newly arrived ambassador to the other envoys. It used to be that a new ambassador was required to call upon each chief of mission separately as soon as possible after arriving at his post. In Washington today, a new envoy working at the rate of one call a day would have to devote five months to meeting...
...Issues. As he flew off to Moscow for another round of test-ban talks, Presidential Envoy Averell Harriman noted hopefully that Russia was being more pleasant in "the small things of life." As for the big things, "we are going in good faith and in the hope of achieving some steps that will be beneficial." The principal issues facing Harriman and his fellow negotiator, British Minister of Science Viscount Hailsham, in Moscow...
...Britain's best-known soldiers, the proud possessor of eleven battle wounds and many more decorations for valor, a lanky Oxonian who lost his left eye battling dervishes in Somaliland, and his left hand during a grenade charge at Ypres in 1915, and became Churchill's military envoy to Chiang Kai-shek in World War II; in Killinardrish, Ireland...
Admiral Anderson has many Portuguese friends, made during numerous visits when he was commander of the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean from 1959 to 1961. And Administration officials were pleased to point out that the U.S. is sending an admiral as envoy to a land whose seafaring tradition is still nourished by the long-ago exploits of Prince Henry the Navigator and Vasco da Gama. But even so, for George Anderson the new job is quite a comedown...
Naked Europeans. Despite France's aversion to tariff-cutting, U.S. negotiators at Geneva hoped to achieve far-reaching liberalization of world trade through President Kennedy's Trade Expansion Act. Special Envoy Christian Herter and his 20-man delegation - who were dubbed "Onward Christian's Soldiers" by the press corps-aimed for an agreement whereby Europe and the U.S. would make big, equal, across-the-board percentage cuts on huge categories of goods. Nothing doing, retorted the Europeans, who pointed out that U.S. tariffs are generally higher than Europe's, while the highest U.S. tariffs cover...