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...many posts the boosts would still fall far short of meeting bills for maintaining an expensive house, a large corps of servants, and entertaining on a scale befitting an envoy of the world's richest nation. In London, Averell Harriman, who has been getting about $31,000 salary and allowance (before taxes on his salary) will now get about $65,000 a year (before taxes)-to run a show which, by prewar standards, was guesstimated to cost upwards of $100,000 a year.* His Union Pacific railroad fortune would still be a handy thing to have around the Embassy...
Last week, in a move that surprised the nation, the State Department and Congress, and delighted the Chinese, President Truman appointed Leighton Stuart U.S. Ambassador to China. Dr. Stuart will not supersede Marshall, who will remain in China indefinitely as U.S. Special Envoy, nor will he be Marshall's leg man. He will complement the General, suggest policy, warn, recommend...
...Announced (after pressure from Protestant churchmen) that presidential Envoy Myron Taylor would be brought home from the Vatican as soon as his job was finished (see RELIGION...
...last week in a musty, obscure courtroom of Paris' Palace of Justice. Racked by fits of tuberculous coughing, her 25-year-old face seared and drawn like a crone's, she heard herself accused of sleeping with a prize package of Axis agents-Count Galeazzo Ciano, Nazi Envoy Otto Abetz, a long list of others, a Luftwaffe flyer to whom she bore a daughter...
...picked up some from his father, Pope Alexander VI,* who was realistic enough to shock even Renaissance Italy. Borgia made a great impression on Europe while he lasted (he died at 31). He made a greater one still on Machiavelli, who spent a few months at his headquarters, as envoy from the Signory of Florence...