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...take Atherton's place, President Truman last week named Laurence Adolph Steinhardt, 55, who had made a fortune as a Wall Street lawyer before Franklin Roosevelt gave him (1933) his first diplomatic job as minister to Sweden. In the last 15 years, few U.S. envoys have had it tougher than Larry Steinhardt. After three grueling years as ambassador in Moscow (through the Hitler-Stalin pact period and the Nazi invasion of Russia) he had three tense years in Ankara. As ambassador to Prague, he had just returned from leave in the U.S., where he underwent a serious operation, when...
...facile speaker and hard worker,with a keenly analytical mind, Steinhardt likes to keep his finger on every last detail. He will have it easier in Ottawa. But his service in Ottawa might be brief. Should a Republican Administration take over next January, Steinhardt would follow tradition and offer his resignation. As a good Democrat he could be pretty sure that it would be accepted...
...ludicrous. On a trip to Europe before a British audience he assailed his own nation in these words: "America's main objective was a quick victory followed by a quick return to normalcy. It was the normalcy of selfishness, nationalism and power politics." He blamed U.S. Ambassador Laurence Steinhardt and U.S. policy for the Communist coup in Czechoslovakia. He said of Jan Masaryk's suicide: "Maybe he had cancer." In all of his speeches, the U.S. is always wrong. He never attacks Russia; Russia, by implication, is always right. His way of solving the Berlin crisis...
...another story. I arrived the day before the Benes resignation-and the gloomy atmosphere enveloped me almost at once. People have all acquired the standard tell-tale gesture of the police state-the hunched shoulders, the furtive glances to right and left before one starts to talk. (Ambassador Steinhardt's telephone was housed in a heavily insulated box; it seems that the Russians have a supersensitive pick-up that eavesdrops on a conversation over the telephone, through voice vibrations in the room, even when the instrument is not in use.) But in Czechoslovakia today, people simply aren...
Only about 600 guests showed up for the ceremonies at Vladislavsky Hall. One of the 400 empty seats had been assigned to U.S. Ambassador Laurence A. Steinhardt. Also absent were delegates from Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia and Chicago, from Oxford and Cambridge, from universities in 13 other countries. Present from the U.S.: delegates from Boston University, Washington State College and Colorado University...