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...Republican for Truman. To fill ailing Lew Douglas' shoes, Harry Truman last week picked an envoy of another sort. Quiet, retiring, 65-year-old Walter Sherman Gifford, a Yankee Republican, began his career as a $10-a-week clerk in Western Electric, by a knack for figures and a passion for efficiency, rose to the eminence of chairman of the board of American Telephone & Telegraph, from which he retired last December. His appointment underlined two facts: in some quarters, diplomacy is less politics than big business; Mr. Truman once again had rejected a political appointment for one that would...
That was not as simple as it sounded: it was impossible for Yuthok to return to Lhasa with his London-length hair. But the envoy was not worried. "A Tibetan order doesn't have the same sense of immediacy as a Western order," he explained. It would take "several months" to prepare for the journey home, several more to wait for the Himalayan spring thaws. By that time Yuthok's hair would again be respectably long-and perhaps Tibet might still be waiting for the Communist blow to fall...
...seasoned U.S. envoy sums up Malik : "Well, he's one of their junior S.O.B.s...
Would the President appoint a successor to Myron C. Taylor as his personal envoy to the Pope...
After Cuba's Ambassador Luis Machado y Ortega presented his credentials to President Truman last week, reporters crowded round to ask the new envoy about Cuban sugar exports. "Cuba will give you all the sugar you need," Machado assured them, "[but] how about some ballplayers? This is one way of sending technical assistance to the U.S.-Point Four in reverse, you know...