Word: missions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gaillard got his vote of confidence (282 to 196), but with it came a blunt threat from right-wing ex-Premier Andre Marie: "We give you our confidence, but if the government makes any unacceptable concessions to Tunisia through the Good Offices mission, our confidence would be withdrawn...
...were comfortably settled on the veranda of the picturesque Mazoe Hotel in suburban Mazoe sipping their customary sundowners (brandy and soda). Suddenly glasses were put down and eyebrows raised as their lily-white privacy was invaded by plump, brown-skinned Jagannath Rao, the press attache of the Indian diplomatic mission, who had brought his wife, two children and a friend into the lounge for a cup of tea. Before they could be served, the hotel manager bustled up, asked them to leave. Rao protested that he was a foreign diplomat, but the manager snapped: "I don't want...
...explain the facts, the U.S. last week sent to Caracas a mission of top-drawer experts: Thomas C. Mann, Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs; Matthew V. Carson Jr., the Texas-lawyer-turned-naval-captain, who runs the voluntary restriction program; Ernest Thompson, chairman of the powerful Texas Railroad Commission, which controls oil production in the state that produces nearly half of U.S. oil; and Willis C. Armstrong, director of the State Department's Office of International Resources. Because Canada is also affected by U.S. restrictions, Canada's Ambassador to Venezuela joined the talks. Some...
...seeing everyone from the ruling junta to industrial and political leaders, the U.S. mission gave Venezuelans a chance to be heard as well as to be persuaded. Nonetheless, as the mission left the government felt obliged to say that it still opposes all restrictions. The talks will continue later in Washington...
While competing harder in Britain, the Reds are also wooing British businessmen with orders as part of their campaign to get the embargo on East-West trade eased. In London last week a Soviet trade mission announced one of its biggest catches to date. With Rustyfa, a combine of British companies, the Russians placed an equipment order of between $28 million and $42 million for one of the biggest tire factories outside the U.S. To be built at Dnepropetrovsk in the Ukraine, the plant will turn out 2,000,000 tires a year...