Word: envoys
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...only American diplomat to have held the three most prestigious posts in Europe: ambassador to France from 1949 to 1952, to West Germany from 1957 to 1959, and to Britain from 1961 to 1969 (the longest term there ever for a U.S. envoy). Two and a half years ago, Nixon called him out of retirement to represent the U.S. at the Paris peace talks, which he did for twelve months. Now, at age 75, he once again comes out of retirement, officially to head the U.S. liaison office in Peking, but unofficially to act as ambassador to China in everything...
...usual, formal embassy party, but rather a friendly get-together among off-duty diplomats. As the senior envoy in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum, Saudi Arabian Ambassador Abdullah al Malhouk had invited other mission heads to say farewell last Thursday to George Curtis Moore, 47, a popular U.S. Foreign Service officer and first-rate Arabist. After serving as the ranking U.S. diplomat in the Sudan for more than three years, Moore was being replaced by Ambassador Cleo A. Noel Jr., 54, and returning to Washington for reassignment. At around 7 p.m., after Moore had been presented with a silver tray...
...Soviet envoy, Ambassador Viktor Maltsev, totally rejected a series of "confidence-building" measures, including one that would permit Communist observers at NATO military maneuvers and Westerners at Warsaw Pact exercises. Warning that the East bloc would allow "no room for the dissemination of anticulture," Maltsev implied that Western proposals for an increased flow of ideas and people between East and West would go nowhere. The point was later made more bluntly in a Pravda article, which scoffed that "such impudent claims will meet a firm rebuff...
...humor, the meeting proved to be spirited as well as historic. As she later told a reporter for the Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv, she felt the same proud feeling on behalf of Israel that she had once experienced when she entered the Kremlin as Israel's first envoy. On her way to the papal library, she commented to an aide: "Imagine me, the daughter of Moshe Mabovitz, the carpenter, going to meet the Pope of the Catholics." Replied the aide: "Wait a minute, Golda, carpentry is a very respectable profession around here...
...professor of early American history and culture at the University of South Florida and an established Franklin scholar, Currey previously published a sober, closely documented work, Road to Revolution/Benjamin Franklin in England, 1765-1775. In his latest book he presents accusations by Franklin's associates that, as an envoy, he was possessed of "cunning, invention and artifice...