Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ambassador to Brazil, she will succeed able Career Diplomat Ellis O. Briggs, 59. Only foreign diplomat to visit every one of vast Brazil's 25 states and territories, polished, amiable Old Latin America Hand Briggs built up a priceless fund of good will for the U.S. during his 2½ years in Brazil. Judged by her performance in Italy, Clare Luce can be depended on to add to the fund...
Ambassadorial shifts under way last week in the Foreign Service's latest flurry of career-diplomat musical chairs...
...Jordan: Byroade's predecessor in Afghanistan, Sheldon T. Mills, 54, Foreign Service veteran who took up his first overseas post in Bolivia in 1929, served as Ambassador to Ecuador before moving to Afghanistan...
...Cambodia: William C. Trimble, 51, Foreign Service officer since 1931, lately deputy chief of the U.S. mission in Bonn...
Riddleberger's contacts with pitchfork, trowel and paintbrush were strictly as a young man in Woodstock, Va. He studied at Georgetown University, taught international relations there for three years after taking his master's degree, won appointment to his first foreign service post, vice consul in Geneva, in 1929. After a long career as a specialist in German affairs he was sent to Belgrade in 1953, worked hard at his end to get the Yugoslavs to enter into the agreement with Italy settling the nagging Trieste problem. In early 1958, President Eisenhower appointed him Ambassador to Greece...