Word: missions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Khrushchev's Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko added the Kremlin's characteristic rocket-rattling buildup for such a diplomatic mission. Said Gromyko: West Berlin is a threat to the peace, and if the West should try to force its way through a Berlin blockade, "the flames of war would inevitably spread to the American continent, for today's military techniques have virtually eliminated the difference between distant theaters of war and those close at hand...
...Washington's ever-growing diplomatic corps-the biggest in the world, with 82 heads of mission-that the White House had to divide its traditional state dinner into two separate functions a night apart; only the hosts and the menu (four wines, sole, turkey, spinach soufflé, strawberry ice cream molds) were identical. Aside from the President's spectacular Atlas announcement on the second night, only one incident ruffled the traditional decorum: Belgium's veteran Ambassador Baron Robert Silvercruys, normally the very picture of diplomatic dignity, provided a giddy moment when he picked up his wife...
...involved. But Nasser supporters now sidle up to American journalists to identify government ministers in Iraq as "Communists." Western specialists regard Nasser himself as deeply but, in the long run, not irretrievably committed to the Communists. In the short run, they think his hands are tied. A Russian mission in Cairo is keeping him dangling over how much responsibility they are willing to assume in building the Aswan High Dam. Some 20 shiploads of Soviet-bloc machinery and equipment vital to his industrialization plan are due in a few weeks. He dares only hint at his peril...
...retracted the offer lest it lose its own Chinese drivers. At another embassy a Chinese cook refused to bake a supply of cookies after he learned that a Dutchman was coming to dinner. Fearing that they too might get the treatment, foreign diplomats now tend to avoid the Dutch mission, which has become the loneliest diplomatic outpost in the world. Every fortnight or so The Hague gets a frantic cable from Slingenberg, protesting the circumstances. The Dutch, who see no way to help him out of his predicament, intend to leave him to his own devices until his transfer comes...
...Appointed able Foreign Service Careerist John D. Jernegan, a Middle East expert and minister-counselor of mission in Rome since 1955, as ambassador to revolutionary Iraq, replacing Waldemar J. Gallman, who had resigned...