Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Allies Help. Against this array Dulles fought a tireless battle. Though Chinese Communists had shown no interest in real negotiations at Warsaw, Dulles ordered U.S. Ambassador Jacob Beam to talk with them again this week. In Manhattan he consulted with Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd,*who gave a diplomatic dinner for Russian U.N. Delegate Andrei Gromyko to urge Moscow pressure on Peking for peaceful settlement. Dulles met privately with Lloyd and French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville, who began making the Western case in U.N. for an effective cease-fire in the Formosa Strait...
...first to hear the click was State G.O.P. Chairman Judson Morehouse. A year ago Morehouse had scribbled down the names of potential candidates: Tom Dewey, onetime Attorney General Herbert Brownell, U.S. Senator Jacob Javits. onetime G.O.P. National Chairman Hall. As a longshot he added Rockefeller, who had been a dependable campaign contributor ($10,000 a year). Morehouse dispatched poll takers across the state to see which name rang bells, was not surprised when Three-Termer Dewey's bonged loudest. But chiming in second place and tolling louder with each sample was Nelson Rockefeller. Realist Morehouse tore up his list...
Both Warsaw negotiators were old hands at the game in which they found themselves. Tall U.S. Ambassador Jacob D. Beam, 50. characterized by some of his colleagues as "the stubbornest man in the Foreign Service.'' had, in his time, negotiated with Nazis, Russians. Yugoslavs and Indonesians. Affable. Berlin-educated Wang Ping-nan was a veteran of the 1954 Geneva conference that ended the Indo-Chinese war and of 73 subsequent bargaining sessions in Geneva with U.S. Ambassador U. Alexis Johnson...
...republic of Lebanon's first minister to Washington and delegate to the U.N.'s founding conference in San Francisco, he helped draft the U.N. Covenants on Human Rights, won a name in the U.S. as "the good Malik" to distinguish him from Russia's U.N. Delegate Jacob Malik. Returning in 1955 to his Beirut university post, he was called back to public life as President Chamoun's Foreign Minister after the Suez crisis, charged with carrying out a policy that allied Lebanon more closely with the West than ever before. Though he is careful...
When Dwight Eisenhower proclaimed his tough "no appeasement" principle (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), most NATO and SEATO members dutifully applauded. But the heartfelt cheers came when Ike reiterated U.S. willingness to negotiate, and the State Department announced that U.S. Ambassador Jacob Beam and Red China's urbane Wang Ping-nan would meet in Warsaw's 18th century Myslewiki Palace at the beginning of this week...