Word: missions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...since the late Senator Joe McCarthy's virulent attack on Brigadier General Ralph Zwicker* had the nation witnessed such a bitter and protracted personal assault by a member of Congress. Last week, in the memorable clash of the Senator v. the Ambassador, a presidential mission was compromised, and from the floor of the Senate reckless charges were cast against the integrity of U.S. diplomatic policy. Chief figures in the Page One drama...
...Very Intemperate." When the Senate Foreign Relations Committee took up Clare Luce's nomination in mid-April, it seemed likely that confirmation would be a simple formality; she had been confirmed unanimously by the Senate for her mission to Rome in 1953, and had come home with the praise of the Italians, of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and many a Democratic Senator. This time both the President and Secretary Dulles had given her warm endorsement, and Brazil's government and press had welcomed her appointment to Rio with notable enthusiasm...
...Luce's mission to Brazil, said her husband, "has now been profoundly compromised." There is a question "whether she can now hope to accomplish the delicate mission assigned to her by the President in a climate of uneasiness which the smears and suspicions have created . . . Senator Wayne Morse and others have devoted themselves to undermining Mrs. Luce's usefulness. Senator Morse happens to be the chairman of the Foreign Relations Subcommittee, which has cognizance of inter-American affairs and Brazil...
From far-off mission fields came news of two clear-cut instances of what Bishop Kennedy was talking about...
...Beirut, Lebanon, the oldest U.S. Protestant mission still in continuous existence handed over its property and work to the indigenous church it had fostered-the 10,000-member National Evangelical Synod of Syria and Lebanon. Founded in 1823, the Syria-Lebanon mission has been mainly the responsibility of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern) and the Congregationalists. But now the 57 missionaries who remain will be "fraternal workers" under the authority of the new church, and about $1,000,000 worth of schools, colleges, hospitals and other properties will pass to Arab Christian ownership...