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...weeks, the blister-conscious Administration let the case of John Carter Vincent hiss and steam on the back of the stove. Dean Acheson wanted to promote him from his job as U.S. Minister to Switzerland, make him Ambassador to Costa Rica. But an ambassador must be confirmed by the Senate, and the White House did not relish the prospect of another airing of Vincent's record. Items: during his years (1945-4?) as director of the State Department's Office of Far Eastern Affairs, he 1) assiduously promoted an anti-Chiang policy that played right into...
...last week, the Vincent case had already grown so hot that the White House was reluctant just to leave him in Switzerland, a major listening-post for the meeting of East & West. Finally, the State Department hit on a slick way out. It appointed Vincent diplomatic agent and U.S. consul general at Tangier, the international territory in Morocco. Though the assignment was a comedown for a veteran of 25 years in the foreign service, Tangier is one of the few important posts where the chief of mission does not require Senate confirmation...
...Paris, President Vincent Auriol prepared for his coming trip to the U.S. by making a third try at learning English. Mornings, he listens to British-made voice-training records; afternoons, he takes lessons from Radioman Paul Archinard, a graduate of Cleveland's East High School. Still unresolved: whether Auriol will say "here" or "heah...
People's eight months at Newsweek had begun in argument: Malcolm Muir thought the little magazine looked like a moneymaker and should be pushed, but Board Chairman Vincent Astor disliked its low-grade formula. When People tried slicing the cheesecake thinner, circulation dropped and Astor yielded. Then an impending paper shortage loomed, and everybody agreed People should...
...damning an answer as any to the question of who failed is to be found right in Foggy Bottom. There the China policy is now quietly referred to, behind hands, as "the China mistake." Most of the old Far East policymakers have been scattered to other fields. John Carter Vincent was sent to Switzerland. Walton Butterworth, who followed Vincent as head of the Far East section, was sent to Sweden. The most notable survivor among the architects of the "China mistake" is Secretary Acheson...