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...wartime fleet commander, Admiral Raymond A. Spruance crossed the Pacific, from Midway to Saipan to Okinawa, the hard way. In 1952 he crossed it with ease to become U.S. Ambassador at Manila, but he soon found that his political duties were almost as exacting as running a fleet. After three highly successful years of extending his country's benevolent paternalism to the Philippines, while deftly avoiding any appearance of internal meddling, Ambassador Spruance, 68, was ready to retire. Last week, the White House announced his successor: Michigan's ex-Senator Homer Ferguson...
...Admiral Spruance's right-hand man, Manila Embassy Counselor William S. B. Lacy, will become U.S. Ambassador to Korea, replacing Ellis O. Briggs, who will go to Peru. Coloradan Lacy, 45, worked his way up in Washington's wartime bureaucracy before joining the Foreign Service, wears a Homburg and a natty mustache, is regarded as a diplomatic comer...
...listened attentively to complaints against French interference by young, popular King Norodom Sihanouk.* In the afternoon, back in his Constellation, Dulles took off for the intrigue-ridden South Viet Nam capital of Saigon to promise U.S. support to doughty little Premier Ngo Dinh Diem. From Saigon he flew to Manila for a round of diplomatic calls and a two-hour-and-ten-minute (without notes) briefing of U.S. Far Eastern ambassadors on the policy he had been preaching all along the line. Principal points...
...vulnerability of Malaya since the fall of Dienbienphu, are already building jet air bases and plan to transfer the Australian garrison from Suez to Malaya. The British would like Singapore to be GHQ of the treaty organization, but may yield to the U.S. preference for Bangkok or Manila, either of which would avoid the stigma of colonialism attaching to Singapore...
...these U.S. soldiers fled to the jungle and carried on as best they could. Blackburn's Headhunters is the exciting true story of Lieut. Donald Blackburn, one of the handful of Americans to fight through on Luzon to the triumphant end. He survived by dodging north from Manila to hide out among the mountain Igorots, who used to be headhunters and were still not entirely reformed when Blackburn met up with them (other tribes in the vicinity were said to drink the blood and eat the hearts and livers of their enemies). One day when his superstitious, G-strung...