Word: officialdom
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...British officialdom welcomed the new U.S. plan and even the anti-Americanism of the Tories thawed slightly. Here and there the Tory press, which had long wanted the U.S. to move "jointly" with Britain in the Middle East, was tempted to crow that the new U.S. position merely paralleled the British line-which contended that Britain had launched its attack against Egypt just to stop the Russians. "As things are now shaping," snapped Beaverbrook's Sunday Express, "we may have [Eisenhower] ordering us back into Egypt . . . I hope the thought of it isn't spoiling his golf game...
...Arab officialdom was more cautious. There was no vacuum, they maintained, that the Arab peoples could not fill. The Egyptians reaffirmed that they are cold war neutrals, that the only outside force they want in the Middle East is the U.N. In Washington, Syria's ambassador to the U.S., Farid Zeineddine, warned that no new U.S. moves into the Middle East could apply without "prior and explicit agreement" with the Arabs-which is a key provision of the U.S. plan...
...American officialdom, inured to the cold, classic ploys of bureaucracy, the 1956 wave of huddled masses was a strange but warming experience. In Vienna, the U.S. Consulate staff processed the stream of Hungarians round the clock; even Pennsylvania's Democrat Francis Walter, co-author of the restrictive McCarran-Walter Immigration Act, returned from an inspection trip along the Austro-Hungarian border (where he saw a rebel shot down) to demand that the U.S. quota of arriving refugees be raised from 5,000 to 17,000. The Army reached fast, far and wide to find GIs of Hungarian descent...
...white-supremacy neighbors just over the border in South Africa, he was "just another Kaffir returning to his kraal." To British officialdom, according to solemn agreement, he was a private citizen of Bechuanaland, with all the rights thereof, permitted to return at last to his homeland. But to a hundred thousand Ba-mangwato tribesmen whose kraals spread over 40,000 sq. mi. of Bechuanaland, Seretse Khama, 34, was still the chief. Last week, as a charter aircraft flew Seretse back from six years' exile in Britain, the Bamangwato, with their wives and children, crowded the airport at Francistown...
...years ago, it was Okichi's destiny at the age of 18 to be assigned as paramour to 50-year-old Townsend Harris, first U.S. consul to Japan. Indeed, Harris, a white-thatched descendant of Roger Williams, threatened to break off trade treaty negotiations with Japanese officialdom until the girl was installed in his living quarters near the seacoast town of Shimoda. Long before she caught the consul's roving eye, Okichi was renowned for her beauty, her regal bearing and her torch songs. Her true love was her childhood sweetheart, a peasant carpenter named Tsuru-Matsu...