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Roots of Decay. In The Ambassador, West has all but abandoned the hypothetical. Once again his hero is the middle-aged man of intelligence and high attainment who is facing his psychological climacteric. Maxwell Gordon Amberley is a career Foreign Service officer and Old Far Eastern hand. While he was serving in Japan, his wife died and he became a convert to Zen Buddhism: such are the personal roots of his spiritual crisis and subsequent breakdown. But the personal story of Amberley is far overshadowed by the public story of the American official, for as the action starts, Amberley...
...South Viet Nam of the novel is governed by "President Cung," who is the double of the late Ngo Dinh Diem; an army coup against him is brewing. It is Amberley's job to bring the fiercely independent Cung and his policies under U.S. control or, failing that, to back the army coup. After open negotiations and private appeals with an obbligato of CIA skulduggery, Amberley does fail with President Cung; the coup does take place exactly along the lines of the one that deposed and murdered Diem...
Divorced. By John Conrad Russell, Viscount Amberley, 32, son of Britain's Philosopher Bertrand Russell: Susan Doniphan Lindsay, 28, daughter of late U.S. poet Vachel Lindsay, on grounds of adultery; after eight years of marriage, three children; in Caernarvon, Wales...
Married. John Conrad Russell, Viscount Amberley, 24, son of Bertrand Russell, Britain's Socialist philosopher-earl and mathematician; and Susan Doniphan Lindsay, 20, daughter of the late U.S. poet Vachel Lindsay; in Washington...
...most distinguished rebels of his generation finally had a job last week that suited him. It was high time. Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 71, by primogeniture third Earl Russell and Viscount Amberley, in his own right a world-famed mathematician and philosopher, accepted a Cambridge fellowship. It was offered him by his famed alma mater, Trinity College, which in 1916 dismissed him for a pacifism he no longer holds...