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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ambassador to Italy in the touch & go postwar years, James Clement Dunn was credited with an important part in keeping Italy free from Communist control. Shifted to Paris in March 1952, he was somewhat overshadowed by the unprecedented cluster of U.S. envoys with ambassadorial rank who made their headquarters there.* Last week President Eisenhower named Dunn to a new post, for which he is well equipped: U.S. Ambassador to Spain...
More worrisome to Denmark's leaders than complacency and pacifism was strong evidence of Communist infiltration of the army's rank & file. In the pocket of one mutineer, investigators found a letter from a Communist youth organizer: "Comrade . . . great things are happening. I want to meet you to discuss these things." Palle Voigt, editor of two Communist magazines that had urged the troops to resist an extension of the draft, was arrested on charges of inciting rebellion. The trouble, believed Danish Defense Minister Harald Petersen, "was obviously directed from abroad...
...Windsor, England, the Duke of Edinburgh, who recently won his pilot's wings, flew a U.S.-made Harvard trainer (the Navy's SNJ) sporting the insigne of his new rank: the five white stars of an R.A.F. marshal...
...Washington, First Lady Mamie Eisenhower was hostess at her first official luncheon. The guests: wives of Cabinet members (except Mrs. John Foster Dulles, who was ill) and ladies of rank in the new Administration. After lunch in the State dining room (brilliant with yellow roses, white snapdragons, blue irises and that old standby from the botanical gardens, Baker fern) with music by the Marine band's orchestra, the ladies lined up for a smiling record of the party...
...Tigers rank as slight favorites to send the Crimson down to its second defeat in six matches. Against their only common opposition, Princeton won easily over Brown, 17 to 8, while the Crimson barely tied the Bruins...