Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This year the girl is Miss Sharman Douglas, daughter of the U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James; last year when the stunt was inaugurated, Miss Margaret Truman was named...
...mainly an advisory body, ECA's chosen instrument of integration, with clear responsibilities and enough political weight to compel member nations to abide by its decisions. One important step toward this goal: appointment of a strong OEEC secretary (possible candidates: Britain's Sir Oliver Franks, now ambassador to the U.S., and Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, first President of the Assembly of the Council of Europe...
Actually, Tsiang's appeal sounded like Nationalist China's swan song: London, Paris and Washington would probably soon follow Moscow's lead in recognizing the Chinese Red regime. This week, U.S. delegate Ambassador Philip Jessup sidestepped China's cry for judgment. In a vague, high-sounding alternative resolution, Jessup proposed that U.N. members pledge themselves not to interfere in China's domestic affairs, nor seek special privileges or spheres of influence...
Sharman Douglas, 21-year-old daughter of the U.S. ambassador to the Court of St. James's, and close friend of Princess Margaret, has just finished a secretarial course at a Kensington business college, is a speedy, accurate typist, and can take dictation at 120 words a minute, an official press release from the U.S. embassy in London announced...
Died. Tsuneo Matsudaira, 72, suave, skillful onetime Japanese Ambassador to the U.S. (1925-28) and Britain (1928-36), confidant (as Imperial Household Minister) to Emperor Hirohito and father-in-law of the Emperor's brother, Prince Chichibu; of a heart attack; in Tokyo. As a moderate, he was hated by the military, unofficially cleared of war responsibility by the Allies, elected first president in 1947 of Japan's.new upper house, the House of Councilors...