Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years in the U.S. Foreign Service, J. Rives Childs, 60, earned a reputation for outspokenness. Now, retired from his post as U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia, he could speak even more freely about the places he served in-Palestine, Egypt, North Africa, Iran and Arabia. Last week his fellow career officers abroad were reading these parting recommendations to the U.S. State Department...
T.W.A. has also built up its own modest, but potentially important, system of "Point Four," under which it provides management know-how for airlines in Ethiopia and Saudi Arabia (it also owns 40% of Italy's Linee Aeree Italiane. 5½% of Philippine Air Lines, 15½% of National Greek Airlines). At home, T.W.A.'s once-demoralized management is a smoothly functioning team. Says Damon, grinning: "We've got a wonderful bunch of shrunken empires...
BETWEEN the Sahara and the Union of South Africa lies Tropical Africa, where a quarter of a million whites rule 150,000,000 blacks. Ethiopia and tiny Liberia are its only independent states; the rest (some 6,500,000 sq. mi.) is ruled by four European powers: Britain, France, Belgium and Portugal...
...implied comparison of his own foreign policy and that of F.D.R. Sketching in the background of the U.S. decision to intervene in Korea-"the decision I believe was the most important in my time as President"-Truman recalled the easy conquests of aggressor nations in the 1930s-Manchuria, Ethiopia, the Rhineland, Austria, Czechoslovakia. He went on: "Think about those years of weakness and indecision and World War II. which was their evil result. Then think about the speed and courage and decisiveness with which we have moved against the Communist threat since World...
Bullard, whose 40 years in the diplomatic service includes work in Russia, Iran, Turkey, Ethiopia, and Saudi Arabia, is currently director of Middle Eastern studies at Oxford University...