Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West, said Herter, would go into the foreign ministers' meeting with a "united position," and the heart of that position is that the West will "stand firm at Geneva in upholding our rights and responsibilities in Berlin...
What was supposed to be a confirmation hearing on the qualifications of Lewis Strauss, former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, to be Secretary of Commerce turned out last week to be an undisguised inquisition. To begin with, the Senate Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee took an unusual step in bringing in a special counsel for the hearing. Committee and counsel called only hostile witnesses, gave Strauss no notice of who would be appearing against him. With witnesses day after day pouring personal rancor into the headlines, the weird sessions added up to one of the bitterest attacks...
...stormy aftermath of Clare Boothe Luce's resignation as Ambassador to Brazil, President Eisenhower last week turned to a career man to be envoy to the biggest, most populous neighbor in Latin America. The new nominee: John Moors Cabot, 58, foreign service veteran (since 1926), currently U.S. Ambassador to Colombia, and Bostonian of first-family lineage...
...Dominican revolution of 1930 which established Rafael Trujillo as the country's warlord, Third Secretary Cabot served as liaison between the two sides, helped negotiate the peace, was commended for bravery and upped two grades in the foreign service...
...Geneva early this week surged the innumerable supporting troops of diplomacy-reporters, secretaries, protocol officers, and the conspicuously invisible agents of the U.S. State Department's security service, Britain's Special Branch and the Soviet MGB. In villas scattered through the city's parklike suburbs, the foreign ministers of Britain, France, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. took one last look at their briefs. In the ornate League of Nations Council Chamber overlooking the turquoise waters of Lake of Geneva and facing snow-capped Mont Blanc, workmen shuffled the furniture about. The great East-West confrontation was about...