Word: warde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Final Chapter. Eccentric as he sometimes appeared, Ward was a cool, competent diplomat. Scholarly and hardworking, he mastered several Chinese and Mongolian dialects in addition to the Russian taught him by his Russian-born mother. Above all, in a series of posts in or on the borders of the Soviet world-Mukden, Tientsin, Moscow, Vladivostok, Teheran-he gathered a specialist's knowledge of two ominously interrelated subjects: China and Communism...
...final, unique chapter in Ward's diplomatic education came in November 1948, when the Chinese Communists captured the Manchurian city of Mukden, where he was consul general. For seven months Ward was kept under house arrest, and Washington heard nothing from him. The State Department, determined at that point not to be beastly to the Chinese Reds, made no protest. Even when Ward and four of his aides were jailed on trumped-up charges (of having beaten up a former Chinese employee of the consulate), it was only after the Scripps-Howard newspapers launched a campaign against passive...
Familiar Problems. Few if any other U.S. diplomats had ever faced an ordeal like Angus Ward's. He had spent nearly a month on a bread-and-hot-water diet, two weeks of it in semi-freezing solitary confinement, and throughout had stubbornly refused to give the Reds a "confession." Ironically enough, this very nearly ruined his career. Irritated by the controversial publicity he had received, Foreign Service brass was inclined to regard Ward as a nuisance, and in September 1950 he was named consul general in Nairobi, a job that made little use of his peculiar qualifications...
...Arab Legion was the Middle East's finest force, whose allegiance could sharply tilt the whole area's precarious balance. Egypt wooed it and played venomously on the bitterness of its refugees. The British, swallowing their pride, strove to maintain their slipping hold on this onetime docile ward...
...Power. From its start, the strike was marked by hatred and intransi gence between the negotiators; each side underestimated the staying power of the other. Inside the conference room, government mediators headed by Federal Media tion Chief Joseph F. Finnegan listened in dismay as the negotiators battled not to ward settlement but farther from it. Once, a union spokesman looked across at a Westinghouse official and bellowed: "You are a goddam tramp." On another occasion, I.U.E. President James Carey strode out of the room after calling Westinghouse "the dirtiest, filthiest, lousiest company on the globe" Management dropped such remarks...