Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trading company was recently organized to sell Russian-built cars and trucks. A $150 million Soviet-built steel plant may soon be started. In the Lagos government's view, the Russians deserve everything they are getting. "I would give Russia more credit than any other single country," Nigerian Ambassador to Moscow George J. Kurubu said last week...
Nixon's appointment of Publisher Walter Annenberg as Ambassador to the Court of St. James's has only reinforced that view. Annenberg lacks his recent predecessors' instinctive knowledge of Britain. He also lacks their style. Asked by a Briton for his opinion of the special relationship, Annenberg replied: "I have always maintained that England and America belong in bed together...
...protest American war policies. The Apollo 11 astronauts' world tour last fall pointedly omitted Sweden, and two months ago, Sweden announced that it would send Hanoi $45 million in reconstruction aid. In reply, the U.S. closed its consulate in Goteborg. More significantly, the U.S. has not had an ambassador in Stockholm since William Heath departed one year...
French Foreign Minister Maurice Schumann was reminiscing about a luncheon in 1963. The then Ambassador to the U.S., Herve Alphand, discussing the Paris visit of a twice-defeated American politician, advised Charles de Gaulle: "Don't waste your time on him. He has no political status at all." "No, Alphand," replied France's President. "You are wrong. Nixon is a man with a great future...
...Ambassador's Journal, Galbraith...