Word: macveagh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ambassador to Greece Lincoln MacVeagh headed home to report, Washington was in the midst of bitter debate. Harry Truman would need Marshall's considerable prestige to balance the practical and emotional arguments against his course. Questions came from left & right...
Seldom, if ever, has the U.S. had an envoy more enthralled by his assignment than Lincoln MacVeagh. Seldom has it kept a top-ranking envoy longer at the same post. He has been accredited to Greece for more than eleven years. This week he was summoned home for consultation...
...grandson of U.S. ambassadors (to Japan and Italy), Link MacVeagh gave no early sign that he would follow the family calling. Educated at Groton and Harvard, his interests were literary and classical. For ten years, as a highbrow publisher (the Dial Press), his heart was in the highlands of Greece. Commuting between Manhattan and Connecticut, he read Ulysses' voyages instead of Dow-Jones averages...
...concerned with the politics of his country's agony. Down one side sat lanky, leonine Premier George Papandreou with members of his Government and leaders of other political groups. At the other end were Churchill, Eden, Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander, Lieut. General Ronald Scobie, U.S. Ambassador Lincoln MacVeagh, French Ambassador Jean Batlen, Soviet Military Attaché Colonel Gregory Popoff. Only the ELAS seats were vacant...
...Papandreou State" (the four square miles in the heart of Athens controlled by the Government, with British help), civilians were allowed out only for two hours a day to fetch food and water. Snipers' bullets and bursting shells made it hazardous to venture outdoors. U.S. Ambassador Lincoln MacVeagh and his staff evacuated the perilously placed Embassy in Queen Sophia Boulevard, moved into the American School of Classical Studies on the much safer slopes of Lycabettus. Food was scarce, even in ELAS areas where merchants' stocks were commandeered and distributed...