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Taking over Byroade's present job will be U.S. Ambassador to India and Nepal George V. Allen, 51, a former newspaper reporter and Buncombe County, N.C. high-school teacher and football, basketball, baseball and volleyball coach. Allen entered the Foreign Service in 1930, in time became Ambassador to Iran, where he often played tennis with the Shah. Before taking over the New Delhi embassy in 1953, Allen supervised the Voice of America, and put in 3½ years as Ambassador to Yugoslavia...
...China are world events," he had proclaimed grandly in Calcutta. He cherished the belief that he could negotiate an Asian "area of peace," guaranteed by Red China, in counterblast to the "trivial" Manila Defense Pact. But Nehru's area of peace, it seemed, was already coming unstuck: neighboring Nepal complained about Red China's infiltration of its northern Himalayas; Burma, worried by Communist guerrillas in its own country, wanted tangible reassurance of Chinese good intentions; even Indonesia, staunchest of Nehru's supporters, was put out by Red China's claim of jurisdiction over Indonesia...
Lanky Ralph Izzard, foreign correspondent of the London Daily Mail, is not one to be intimidated by the impossible. When his editor ordered him off to Nepal to cover the British Everest Expedition and beat the Times of London, off he went. But how he could beat the Times, or even get the story, was a puzzler. The Times was subsidizing the expedition; by excluding all rivals from climb and climbers, it had a guaranteed airtight exclusive. Nonetheless, Correspondent Izzard, innocent as a fox, timid as a lion, moved in. An Innocent on Everest is his modest and amusing story...
...tell you anything, and that applies as well to all members of the expedition." The British ambassador promised to be equally unhelpful and kept his promise so brilliantly that frozen-out newsmen later called him "the extra-special correspondent of the Times." Soon the expedition set out from the Nepal capital weighted down with 7½ tons of equipment. Izzard sadly watched his story climb away from him. It was going to take place three weeks away as a man walks (nearly 200 miles over murderously wild, roadless country), and the only way to get there was on foot. Resolutely...
...another because of them. He never chooses publicly to mention their basic difference: India goes in for British-style parliamentary democracy, while Red China rules by terror and command. Only when Red China shows more than a passing interest in what Nehru considers to be Indian interests (e.g., Nepal, Burma) does Nehru react like the jealous India Firster he basically is. Last week Nehru was actively helping Red China get Viet Nam for Ho Chi Minh, but he was also concerned that the Communists might edge too close to India. So Nehru hoped for Chinese assurances that they would...