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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...world, and has a proper, frosty appearance. But the frost melts away when he smiles and stretches out a huge hand in greeting. He speaks five languages (French, Spanish, Portuguese, English and German), and in more than 30 years of U.S. diplomacy has led a fast-moving life in Latin America, Europe and Asia. Items...
...Cabot is known around the State Department as a skilled troubleshooter who works at his job and writes sharp, effective reports. His technical qualifications for Rio include duty at seven posts south of the border (his wife, an American, was born and reared in Mexico City), a swing through Latin America in 1953 with the President's brother, Dr. Milton Eisenhower, and service as U.S. delegate to a number of Latin American conferences. Prognosis for his Senate confirmation: smooth and uneventful...
...leader of a state more populous than Latin America and Africa combined, plagued by a per-capita income of $60 a year and a runaway birth rate, Nehru has strong reasons for fearing Communism at home and abroad. His solution has been to excuse China, suppress information about happenings in Tibet, and to muffle India's outrage. But last week many Indians were wondering if Nehru's way was the right one. Their doubts were voiced by the Praja Socialist leader, Acharya Kripalani, who told Nehru in Parliament that "our efforts to save the friendship with Red China...
...Operates International lecture tours to non-Islamic nations. Currently, 75 al-Azhar missionaries are in Latin America...