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Ambassadors
AMBASSADORS AMBASSADORS are the highest-ranking diplomats sent abroad to represent their country's interests. In the United States, the president appoints ambassadors to act as his representatives in other nations. Normally stationed in an embassy in the host nation's capital, an ambassador is... Read more |
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Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko
Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko , 1909-89, Soviet diplomat. A member of the Communist party from 1931, he entered (1939) the diplomatic service, rising rapidly to become Soviet ambassador to the United States (1943-46) and chief permanent Soviet delegate to the United Nations (1946-48). He was (1952-53)... Read more |
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Ambassadors International Inc
Ambassadors International, Inc. 1071 Camelback Street Newport Beach, California 92660 U.S.A. Telephone: (949) 759-5900 Fax: (949) 759-5909 Web site: http://www.ambassadors.com Public Company Incorporated: 1967 Employees: 121 Sales: $13.7 million Stock Exchanges:... Read more |
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Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. 1902-85, American public official and diplomat, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts (1937-44, 1947-53), b. Nahant, Mass.; grandson of Henry Cabot Lodge. He was a journalist on the Boston Evening Transcript and then on the New York Herald Tribune until 1931 and a member of... Read more |
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Sir Richard Fanshawe
Sir Richard Fanshawe , 1608-66, English diplomat and man of letters. He was secretary to the ambassador to Spain (1635-38) and chargé d'affaires there (1638). During the English civil war he served Prince Charles (after 1649 Charles II) in England, Ireland, and on the Continent until his own... Read more |
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John Foster Dulles
John Foster Dulles 1888-1959, U.S. Secretary of State (1953-59), b. Washington, D.C.; grandson of John Watson Foster , Secretary of State under President Benjamin Harrison, and nephew of Robert Lansing , Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson. A graduate (1908) of Princeton, he was admitted... Read more |
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Charles Augustus Lindbergh
Charles Augustus Lindbergh 1902-74, American aviator who made the first solo, nonstop transatlantic flight, b. Detroit; son of Charles A. Lindbergh (1859-1924). He left the Univ. of Wisconsin (1922) to study flying. After service as a flying cadet, he was commissioned (1925) in the air force... Read more |
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William Averell Harriman
William Averell Harriman , 1891-1986, American public official; son of E. H. Harriman . Expanding his railroad inheritance, W. Averell Harriman became a banker and shipbuilder and later (1932) board chairman of the Union Pacific. He was administrative officer (1934-35) of the NRA and an official... Read more |
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William Christian Bullitt
William Christian Bullitt , 1891-1967, American diplomat, b. Philadelphia. A member of the American delegation to the Paris Peace Conference following World War I, he was sent by President Wilson on a secret mission to Russia. When his report favoring recognition of the Communist government was... Read more |
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Holbrooke: Partitioning Bosnia `would legitimize...
...Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke was the architect...convinced on the basis of extensive talks...dumbfounded when people say Dayton was great...This agreement says clearly that there...Let's just say two provinces - a...a single foreign ... |
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Obama sets new course on foreign policy
...course on foreign policy -- Reverses Bush...Ambassador Richard Holbrooke to Afghanistan and...overseas."I can say without exception...strength and the moral high ground to be...States on foreign policy."Let me be clear...mail on a regular ... |
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Bush edging close to diplomatic embarrassment
...Minister Tony Blair, say experts who follow...of the Defense Policy Board that advises...does need the moral authority that...possible on the basis of the existing...seemed loath to say what it would...Richard C. Holbrooke, ... |
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DejA Vu All Over Again.(European-US relations)
...EU foreign-policy czar Javier Solana...full by Richard Holbrooke, something of...rights to use air bases in Turkey, a...tone of American policy. They remember...weapons are a "moral issue" on which...talks on nuclear policy, ... |