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...economic aid to develop the pact communications system. But the British had obviously become junior member of the pact, welcome but not encouraged to make too much noise. Undisputedly senior was the U.S., which emphasized the importance it attached to the meeting by sending Deputy Under Secretary of State Loy Henderson and Air Force Chief of Staff General Nate Twining, who is soon to become Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...first career ambassadors (others: Deputy Under Secretary of State Robert Murphy, Deputy Under Secretary of State for Administration Loy W. Henderson, Ambassador to Brazil James Clement Dunn), Foreign Service equivalents of five-star generals, were sworn in a year...
...force. It was U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles who mustered 18 maritime nations behind a mild U.S. plan to put the key waterway under a form of international supervision while acknowledging Egypt's ownership. Dulles sent the State Department's ace Middle East troubleshooter, Loy Henderson, to Cairo on a five-nation committee "to present and explain" the U.S. plan to Egypt's President Nasser...
...Presidential Car. Nasser himself was courteous and smiling when the committee came to his modest Nileside office -"probably the only office in Cairo," said a reporter, "without a picture of Nasser." He seated his guests-Menzies, U.S. Career Ambassador Loy Henderson, Sweden's Foreign Minister Osten Unden, Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Gholi Ardalan and Ethiopia's Foreign Minister Ato Aklilu Abte Wold-in armchairs round a blond mahogany table. To make the give-and-take as easy as possible, the group agreed to do without stenographers and to keep an absolute news blackout. Then Menzies...
...search for some formula that might break the deadlock went feverishly on in Washington, where, without bothering about the sacred protocol of presenting credentials, France's newly arrived Ambassador Herve Alphand rushed from the airport to State Department consultations with Dulles. In Cairo the U.S.'s Loy Henderson, reportedly with the support of the Iranian and Ethiopian representatives, pressed Menzies for one more try at compromise with Nasser. After a heart searching discussion the committee agreed to ask Nasser for one more session. A new press officer announced that "the discussions have not yet reached their final stage...