Word: envoys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Presbyterian missionary who in 1919 founded China's No. 1 Christian university, American-endowed Yenching, and saw this center of Western learning in the Orient survive Japanese occupation only to become a Marxist-Leninist thought factory; in Washington, D.C. Chosen as ambassador by President Truman's special envoy, General George Marshall, Stuart vainly attempted to bring about a peaceful settlement between China's warring Communists and Nationalists, aptly remarked before the Reds finally shut the open door in 1949, "The trouble is that the Chinese Communists don't think like Chinese...
Washington wanted an envoy who would "promote, not thwart, the neutral policy of the Government." Monroe returned to the U.S. in disgrace, and it looked as if his public career might be finished, but he was liked and admired in his home state, and within a few years after his recall he bounced back as Governor of Virginia.* In 1803 Monroe's old friend Jefferson sent him to France as a special envoy to help negotiate the U.S. right to navigation on the Mississippi, a cause dear to Monroe's heart. Once again in the thick of history...
Last week, after five grueling years in Moscow-a record for a U.S. envoy-slender (5 ft. 11 in., 150 Ibs.), baggy-eyed "Tommy" Thompson left for home and a new assignment as a special adviser on Soviet Affairs to Secretary of State Dean Rusk. Foy D. Kohler will arrive next month to take his place. Thompson's Moscow tenure had spanned the period from the short-lived honeymoon spirit of Camp David to the blowup at the Paris summit, to the Kennedy Administration's diplomatic "probes" over Berlin-altogether a mobile period, in many ways harder...
...preferred to settle for a league with more modest and attainable goals. Its chances of success are accordingly far greater than the glittering schemes of Kwame Nkrumah, the thwarted boss of Ghana who dreams of ruling the continent. Stung by his failure to win wide support, Nkrumah sent no envoy to the Lagos talks. Instead, he hastily convened a rival meeting of his own in Accra...
...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 receding, slightly greying hair, Dobrynin, 42, will be the first Soviet envoy to the U.S. who was born after the Russian revolution; in the youthful climate of present-day Washington, he should fit in well as a liudi novykh granits - or Soviet-style New Frontiersman...