Word: diplomatically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mosses. Clubb is another old China hand with a reputation as a member of the opposite camp who stoutly supported Chiang. As a Class One foreign service officer, he outranks Davies (only career ministers rank higher). Born and educated in Minnesota, Diplomat Clubb speaks both Chinese and Russian, served two years as consul general in Vladivostok. He was consul general in Peking when the Communists took over in 1950, was ejected when they seized the consulate over official U.S. protests. The charges against him apparently come from old hearings before the House Un-American Activities Committee, in which ex-Communist...
...fact was that Diplomat Grady, a success in the touchy job as Ambassador to Greece during the Civil War, had moved on to the new job in troubled Iran with the understanding that he could resign after a year. When the time came, in May, he reminded the State Department of the agreement, and was asked to stay on at least until September...
...York Yankees' Outfielder Joe DiMaggio, usually as closemouthed as a Russian diplomat, took a preliminary sniff of the Fourth of July weather last week and made his pick. "It will be a finish fight between the Red Sox and us," said Joe. Then, with a look at the American League leaders: "The White Sox will make trouble right to the end, but they are not going to win, because when [Manager] Paul Richards will need his pitching most it will...
...British cabinet, sure that Japan would choose the Nationalists, said no. Undismayed, able Diplomat Dulles went on negotiating. He convinced Foreign Minister Herbert Morrison, who in turn convinced the British cabinet; last week the British agreed to the U.S. compromise...
Died. Stephen Bonsal, 86, author, diplomat, and in his time, one of the world's top foreign correspondents; after long illness; in Washington, D.C. At 20, he was in the Balkans covering the war between Bulgaria and Serbia for the New York Herald, from then on made the world his beat. Between 1889 and 1911, he chronicled wars and skirmishes in Morocco, Macedonia, Manchuria, Cuba, the Philippines, Venezuela, Russia (the 1907 revolution), Mexico. As a lieutenant colonel, Bonsal served as President Wilson's interpreter at Versailles, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1944 for Unfinished Business, his incisive footnotes...