Word: thurston
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...light grey suit he fished a diplomatic little speech of his own. Said O'Dwyer, in Spanish that had gone a bit rusty since his student days in Salamanca: "I feel deeply honored that I have been chosen to succeed the distinguished and able former ambassador, Mr. Walter Thurston, and I am gratified that he is remaining in Mexico* where I hope I may call upon him from time to time for advice and counsel...
...Gentle, capable Careerman Thurston, not pleased at having been shuffled out of the Mexican post to make room for O'Dwyer, has retired, at 54, to Cuernavaca, there to live with his ailing mother...
Last week, U.S. Ambassador Walter Thurston asked the Mexican foreign ministry for a full report on the arrests and at the same time announced: "The U.S. upholds the legal right of its fishermen to operate on the free high seas up to within three miles of the coast of Mexico." He got quick backing in Washington, where angry U.S. Congressmen spoke up. Growled Washington State's Representative Thor Tollefson: "If these shrimp boats were seized ten miles at sea, it is definitely a case of piracy on the high seas...