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...said, he got State Department approval to reduce the embassy staff from 80 to 40, yet in six months the bureaucratic resistance of Washington agencies kept him from removing more than two. But the Czech government, harassing the embassy, actually helped by declaring all but 13 Americans persona non grata. "For 30 months thereafter I ran the American embassy in Prague with twelve individuals. It was the most efficient embassy I ever had." He had a deputy who "used to drive the Communists crazy by talking Eskimo over the telephone on a tapped line," a first secretary who doubled...
...office in rural Maidenhead, Insurance Broker John Dobbin opened his London Times last week, scanned the big story from Moscow, and reached apprehensively for a list of his clients. He breathed a sigh of relief. Of the ten British and U.S. diplomats who had been declared persona non grata by the Soviet government, none had insured his stay in Moscow with J. N. Dobbin...
...against the prime hazard on assignment to Moscow: sudden expulsion, and the often considerable personal loss that it involves, from the cost of Russian lessons to the tab for the farewell party. For a $210 annual premium, a Western foreign service officer can get the $5,000 persona non grata coverage for two years, the average tour of duty. As the word of Dobbin's diplomatic coverage got around, personnel assigned to the other Iron Curtain capitals have also sent to Maidenhead for P.N.G. policies. To date, Dobbin and his clients have been lucky. Of some 50 diplomats thus...
Died. Selden Chapin. 63. U.S. career diplomat. Chargé d'Affaires to De Gaulle's wartime Free French government, both in Algiers and in Paris after the 1944 liberation; Minister to Hungary in 1949. where he was declared persona non grata for "conspiring" with Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty; Ambassador to Panama in 1955, where he renegotiated the "in perpetuity" agreement under which the U.S. controls the Canal; of a heart attack; in San Juan, Puerto Rico. At the time of his death. Chapin was on his way to meet his wife on her return from the marriage of their...
...enraged by this treachery, even if it did come from his ideological pals. At a diplomatic reception, the presidential protocol officer pulled Ambassador Solod out of the crowd, asked him to go immediately to the Foreign Ministry. There, Guinean officials told the Russian he was persona non grata, must leave the country immediately...