Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with a Beard. In 1916, with an M.A. from Princeton and a year's teaching experience at India's Allahabad Christian College, Dulles joined the Foreign Service. After a year in Vienna, Dulles was transferred to Switzerland when the U.S. entered World War I. In Switzerland he got his first taste of intelligence work. Assigned to the job of gathering political intelligence from southeast Europe, he organized an undercover group which made a determined but unsuccessful effort to lead the Austro-Hungarian empire out of the German camp...
Last week Frances Willis hove in sight of the foreign-service officer's lifetime goal: a mission of one's own. President Eisenhower nominated her to be Ambassador to Switzerland (where women do not have a vote and take no part in government). Now counselor of the U.S. Embassy in Helsinki, she will be the sixth woman, and the first unmarried woman, to become a U.S. chief of mission...
...taught history at Goucher and politics at Vassar before entering the foreign service at 28, served tours of duty in Chile, Sweden, Belgium, Luxembourg, Spain and Finland. In 1944-45 she was assistant to Under Secretary of State Joseph Grew, who says of her nomination to be Ambassador to Switzerland: "I think nobody could do a better job than...
Could they sell much more if all strategic restrictions were lifted? Switzerland, which gets no MSA assistance, is not affected by the embargoes. Yet its total Soviet-bloc trade last year was only $57 million, also only about a third of the prewar level...
...Five neutral nations, Sweden. Switzerland, Poland, Czechoslovakia and India, will take custody, in Korea, of the 46,380 North Korean and Chinese prisoners who say they do not want to return to their homes. Only Indian troops, armed with side arms, will stand guard...