Spoiling Baby

In the old days it was the job of our ambassadors to represent the interests of the United States in foreign parts. Chester Bowles, when he used his New Delhi post to sell Nehru to America instead of America to New Delhi, launched a new mode. John Kenneth Galbraith lopes happily in the footsteps of his predecessor. Howard P. Jones in Indonesia wins cheers as he shouts Merdeka to mass rallies supporting Sukarno’s attack on New Guinea. The U.S. diplomatic establishment in the Congo transforms itself into a press agency for Adoula. Adlai Stevenson tours Washington and the country peddling UN bonds. In another couple of years at this rate, ambassadors home on leave from central Africa will be serving roast babies for dinner.

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In the old days it was the job of our ambassadors to represent the interests of the United States in foreign parts. Chester Bowles, when he used his New Delhi post to sell Nehru to America instead of America to New Delhi, launched a new mode. John Kenneth Galbraith lopes happily in the footsteps of his predecessor. Howard P. Jones in Indonesia wins cheers as he shouts Merdeka to mass rallies supporting Sukarno’s attack on New Guinea. The U.S. diplomatic establishment in the Congo transforms itself into a press agency for Adoula. Adlai Stevenson tours Washington and the country peddling UN bonds. In another couple of years at this rate, ambassadors home on leave from central Africa will be serving roast babies for dinner.

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