Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Studied Calm. Gradually, the silent treatment began to undermine Bramuglia's studied calm, perhaps even caused him to see enemies where none existed. He confided to friends that he suspected his old friend, Ambassador to the U.S. Jerónimo Remorino, of conspiring against him. At least five times he resigned, as many times the President talked him into staying...
Then there was garrulous Ambassador Pat Hurley reporting to Washington:"The Communists are not in fact Communists; they are striving for democratic principles." (That was a judgment made in wartime. But Hurley soon changed his mind, fought hard and successfully against State Department officials who wanted to arm the Communist "agrarian democrats...
...policymakers, the end came as ignominiously as fof China's Generalissimo. Wearily, Ambassador Stuart cabled Washington: "I have more than ever a sense of frustration ... I feel impotent to accomplish anything." Desperately he cabled for specific instructions to meet the shattering of Chinese resistance. In a tantrum born of its own indecision, Washington brushed off its ambassador's "hypothetical" inquiries: "It is not in the national interest to vouchsafe cut and dried answers to these over-simplified questions...
...What then is Mr. Stalin's price, Mr. Ambassador ... for what you people call East-West coexistence...
...Neville story into senselessness. Recently, the censorship had also been extended to other U.S. newsmen. Since March, radio correspondents have been denied access to broadcasting facilities, and last fortnight the Buenos Aires newscast of the U.S. Information Service was banned for two days. At week's end, U.S. Ambassador James Bruce lodged a protest with Argentina's Foreign Office...