Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congress had yet to appropriate the money which it had authorized. The North Atlantic defense council had to approve its integrated defense plan and each nation had to sign agreements promising not to sell or transfer MAP arms without U.S. permission. MAP did not even have a director-ex-Ambassador James Bruce had not yet been officially nominated by the President. But MAP planners hoped to ship the first materiel by year's end or, with luck, by Thanksgiving...
With the Senate's passage of the aid bill came word of the President's first choice as director of the arms-for-Europe program: 56-year-old James Bruce, ex-Maryland stock farmer and international banker, who recently resigned as U.S. ambassador to Argentina. If he takes the $16,000-a-year job, Bruce will direct the flow and placement of U.S. weapons in Europe as ECAdministrator Paul G. Hoffman now directs Marshall...
...McCloy's officials last week explained HICOG's functions to TIME Correspondent David Richardson: "A high commissioner," he said, "is an ambassador with a great big horn. Whenever possible, he will talk quietly through the horn. Occasionally he may have to holler through it. But because he is, after all, a gent in a morning coat, he will count past 100 before he will even think of conking anyone with...
...starts his private office staff fluttering. The first half-hour goes to the mail, the second to reviewing the pile of cables decoded during the night. His first conference is with Minister Sir Frederick Hoyer Millar, a veteran of 26 years in Britain's Foreign Service and the Ambassador's alter ego. The morning's problem may be anything from London's attitude on the Austrian peace treaty to an analysis of how to soothe ruffled U.S. feelings over the Anglo-Argentine trade treaty. Tactics are studied: Is the issue crucial enough for a personal visit...
...Washington, Dr. Herman Baruch (younger brother of elder statesman Bernie), whose resignation as U.S. ambassador to The Netherlands was recently accepted, explained why he had chucked diplomacy. At 77, he said, he simply could not bring himself to face another one of those clammy Dutch winters...