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...list of conferees was impressive: U.S. Ambassadors David Bruce (to Britain), Walter Dowling (West Germany), Foy Kohler (U.S.S.R.). Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Former Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Special Trade Envoy Christian Herter. Vice President Lyndon Johnson. Whatever the tenor of their conversations. Kennedy indicated at a press conference that he was not planning any drastic new U.S. action to patch up the alliance...
...have just returned home from a trip to Pakistan to find your Nov. 16 issue awaiting me. It contains your most friendly review of my book about Rudolf Hess, The Uninvited Envoy, for which my thanks...
...UNINVITED ENVOY (249 pp.)-James Leaser-McGraw-Hill...
...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...