Word: loy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...military intervention against Syria," proclaimed Communist Peking, and added that the U.S. intends "to isolate Egypt by forming a Mediterranean alliance consisting of a number of North African states, with Spain as its center." Actually, U.S. plans were considerably less grand than that. Washington's Middle East Expert Loy Henderson had been sent off to consult with Arab rulers and the Turks largely because the Turks, in particular, thought that the U.S. was taking too complacent an attitude about Syria. The U.S. is intent on staying in the background and keeping an Arab label on any anti-Syrian moves...
...Foreign Service." The man sent to determine the pattern and frame recommendations for U.S. policy is notably suited to do the job. Loy Henderson, Deputy Under Secretary of State for Administration, one of the U.S.'s "five-star" career diplomats,* has risen during 35 years of quiet, stylish diplomacy to successive new highs of influence and prestige in the State Department, where he is often called "Mr. Foreign Service." His specialties: Soviet Communism and the Middle East...
Born on a farm near Rogers, Ark., the son of a man who was studying for the Methodist ministry, Loy Henderson went to Northwestern University ('15) and Denver University Law School (1917-18), served with the American Red Cross during World War I and the aftermath, came home in 1922 with such interest in foreign problems that he took the stiff foreign service exams. Passed and appointed, he performed energetically in junior jobs from Dublin to Moscow, brilliantly in Washington as head of the Office of Near Eastern and African Affairs (1945-48), and as Ambassador to Iraq...
Line of Retreat. Arriving in Istanbul this week, Loy Henderson hurried into a series of hours-long conferences with the Turks, Iranians and the Arab monarchs. In the intricate situation that Henderson was exploring, President Eisenhower had set a diplomatic keynote that had a Loy Hendersonian ring. In taking up public positions on diplomatic items such as whether to call Syrian plotters "men of leftish leanings" or "Communists," said the President, the true diplomat should never commit himself irretrievably. "Always," he said, "give your enemy a line of retreat...
They were joined by U.S. Deputy Under Secretary of State Loy W. Henderson, a veteran Middle East diplomat who had hustled off to Istanbul from Washington (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Henderson's trip would serve to quietly underscore the fact that though the U.S. is not a full member of the Baghdad Pact, she has joined its military committee, and can be expected to participate in any military discussions by pact members...