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IPLOMACY, some other claim United States now has embassies in ants notwithstanding, is proh ninety-three countries, and ome sixteen D ahly the oldest profession in the thousa nd Americans and foreign citi world. The first diplomats, as Sir zens-two or three thousand of them Harold icol on has pointed out, were Foreign Service officers and the rest most likely anthropoid apes who divided --- specialists of one kind or another .,...-. - - up the jungle among themselves for ,:;- =-- - ...... work ahroad for the State Department hunting purpo es-often so ineffectual or for its directly affiliated agencies and ly that they were soon at each other's deal with everything from atomic mat throats over disputed territorial rights. ters to crop-rotation schemes and tours ~ --. The apes arc credited with having in ( :'i;" 1, ~'~- of visiting American musicians. Now troduced one of the earliest diplomatic adays, almost any nation, no matter devices-diplomatic immunity, which how small or how new, is accorded a ' 1,:,1 guaranteed an emissary that, whatever . j:f"',-:..:;..:;-,z ,'/, full-fledged ambassador once we have else hecame of him, he wouldn't be .,.,__ ~ ' -},J recognized its existence. The ambassa '(s;_II:·..;•'• ,I -~ ~ ·I murdered. Around 600 B.C., the am dor in each post, who i also known as S \:~~~~ f \ l ~: bassadors of the Greek city-states theo Chief of Mission, shall, in the language retically enjoyed the same protection, of a 195 4 Executive Order, "serve ::is but actually their lives were always in the channel of authority on foreign danger. In those days, diplomacy had policy and shall provide foreign policy other drawbacks, too; ambassadors got direction to all representatives of United no salary and were forbidden to accept States agencies ... and he shall a sumc presents, under penalty of execution, responsibility for assuring the unified de and their only compensation was a velopment and executio11 of rall] pro spending allowance, which, in the man John Moors Cabot grams." In general, though an am ner of members of the Foreign Serv bassador doesn't get as much chance to ice of the United States today, they nineteenth century. Every President improvise policy as he once did, he has considered far from adequate. If a from Washington himself to Jackson a far greater number of intricate day man successfully brought off a mission, had had some diplomatic experience, by-day perplexities to face, the determi the most he could expect wa a garland and the era was notable for a score or nation of which often demands on-the of wild-olive leaves, a free meal in the so of brilliant envoys, like Benjamin spot judgments that can be at least as town hall, and a commemorative tab Franklin and John Jay, who, operat tough to make as basic policy decisions. let; if he failed, he was politically de ing very much on their own, secured An ambassador who once might have stroyed, if not worse. As diplomacy recognition for the United States and sent off his dispatches to Washington was further refined, under the Byzan financial or military support from Euro every few weeks, or even months, is tines and the Venetians, it hecame more pean nations. Then, in the eighteen now in daily or hourly telegraphic or ceremonial and more riddled with du thirties, the United States withdrew into telephonic touch with his superiors at plicity. Then, in the time of Richelieu, its shell, and for many years this coun home, and in addition he is apt to fly the French raised the level of diplo try remained largely aloof from Europe home fairly often for personal con matic morality and developed diplomat and indifferent to its representation sultations, from which he may return ic methods and procedures-intricate, there, its diplomatic "corps" dwindling to his post with a new set of directives. perhaps, but workmanlike-that have until it was composed mainly of men The expansion of our need for dip persisted to the present time. But if the who in their youth, as family friends of lomatic representation has meant that forms and trappings of diplomacy have earlier emissaries, had accompanied career diplomats move from post te1 remained much the same since the them to their posts and had found that post far more frequently than they used seventeenth century, the diplomatic they liked the life enough to stay on. to; whereas a top-ranking man former strategies of individual nations have As recently as the eve of the First \Vorld ly served in only three or four countries varied greatly with historical circum \Var, the United States had embassies in his entire diplomatic lifetime, such stances. In contrast to the British For in only ten nations-elsewhere it was a man is now likely to be assigned to eign Office, for example, our State represented by mere legations or con at least a dozen posts. Department, ever since its creation, on sular posts-and even in 1924 the for On th e whole, diplomatic career July 27, 1789, hy a simple one-page mal diplomatic corps, as distinct from men find that their quiet assignments Act of Congress, ha heen swayed by the consular corps, which was some and their exciting ones average out over the vicissitudes of a national foreign what larger, consisted of just a hundred .the years, but there are exceptions, and policy responsive to the needs of the and twenty-two men. In that year, the one veteran officer whose record shows moment, instead of adhering to a con two corps merged to form the For an unusually high proportion of trouble sistent philosophy of government and eign Service of the United States-a spots is John Moors Cabot, of the Bos an enduring set of aims. body of career men who fill practically ton Cabots, who, having served through Even before 1789, the young nation all of our diplomatic positions, except, crises in Argentina, Yugoslavia, and entered what has been called the Gold of course, those ambassadorships that China since the Second World , var, en Age of American Diplomacy, which the President sees fit to assign to out was named in May, 1959, as Ambas hsted through the third decade of the side, or "political," appointees. The sador to Brazil, a country who e at- 40 41
cently married the former ©DANA PERFUMES CORP. 1961 Elizabeth Lewis-found life gay and easygoing. Beyond the fact that he naturally has far greater responsibilities as Ambas sador than he had as sec ond secretary, and that he was faced upon his second arrival in Rio with a far more serious and touchy situation, the mere physical act of moving to Brazil was much harder for the Cab ots this time than last. Back in the thirties, when they were young in the Foreign Service, they tra veiled light, but they have since picked up a great many possessions, and they can't resist taking the bulk of these along wherever they go-a weakness that has earned them a reputation in diplomatic circles for • domestic elegance but that has caused them an in creasingly severe head ache with each transfer. Cabot's letter continued: There is a saying in the Foreign Service that three transfers are the equiva lent of one fire, and as far as we're concerned that's been the case. Rain, damp ness, rough handling, bad packing, insects, pilferage, and a number of other haz- «They're all enjoying themselves. There must be ards must always be con sidered, and \\'hat made something wrong with you.I" things tough this time was that ll'e didn't know, when \\·e " ·ent on leave to Wash • • ington in the spring from our previous post in Colom- mosphere has for some time been one th e few questions put to him br senators bia, that \\'e ,,·e re going to be transferred. of acute nationalism and economic peril. was "\Vil! you have to divest yourself So everything in Bogota had to be packed Cabot was sent to Brazil under un of any interests of an equestrian na for us by other people, and despite all the care that \\'as taken, needless to say, usual circumstances, taking over after ture/" Cabot, who looks horsy but isn't, there was a certain confusion. We remem Clare Boothe Luce had accepted the replied, diplomatically, "No, I'm al bered the ambassadorial residence in Rio post and then immediately resigned it, lergic to horses." His appointment was as a large, rather pretentious house that following an exchange of insults with unanimously confirmed. has all the charm and intimacy of a rail\\'ay station, and we knew it would Senator \Vayne Cabot's assignment not be a Morse, of Oregon. to Brazil is his small task to soften its appearance \Yith The Senator had opposed her appoint eighteenth in the three and a half dec our personal things and make it a pleas ment, and she had suggested that his ades he has been a career diplomat. "It anter place in which to live. As a rule, brain was addled because he had once is always an emotional experience to what we haven't lugged around from post to post been "kicked in the head by a horse." leave one post and take up a new one," we've stored in our home in Wash ington or in our summer residence, in While Mr. Morse had suffered mouth he wrote to a friend soon after his ar Manchester, l\llassachusetts. Since the Rio injuries when a horse kicked him in the rival in Rio de Janeiro. "A new post residence is so big, we had to pull down a face at a horse show in Virginia in 195 1, is something of a tonic, with new peo lot of stuff from both places. Fortunately, it had not occurred to anyone else that ple to meet, new things to experience, with pictures, books, scrolls, silver, and assorted knickknacks, the place no longer he was otherwise damaged, and Mrs. new problems to face." Actually, Bra looks so imposingly empty as it did at first. Luce's diagnosis resulted in general re zil was not altogether new to him, for sentment against her among his loyal he had served from 1932 through 1935 While Mrs. Cabot assumed most of colleagues in the Senate, whereupon she as third and then as second secretary the burden of getting the R io house in quit. Cabot, who was Ambassador to at our Embassy ii1 Rio. The atmos order, her husband concentrated on PARIS-NEW YORK Colombia at the time, was then pro phere then, however, was considerably paying the courtesy calls expected of a PERFUME • COLOGNE • SPRAY COLOGNE • LIPSTICK • DUSTING POWDER • SOAP posed for the Brazilian post, and one of different, and the Cabots-he had re- newly arrived diplomat. In this round, 42
he had to visit about fifty other am bas sadors and also pay his respects to pe r haps twenty-five high-ranking Brazilian offi cials. Moreover, he also had to en tertain all of th em, whi ch, Cabot said, called fo r " co nsiderable generalship" on candinavia the part of his wi fe . Luckily, Mrs. Cabot has long si nce m astered the arts of dip <--..,0~~,-- For a fascinating lomati c courtesy and logistics. W her ~-..... _ ~~-- holiday, easy-to-reach .;:;::-::-- "'":: __ _ Scandinavia is your best ever th ey go, she imports certain A meri -- • -~- vacation buy. Visit can specialties from S. S. P ierce, in - :~ -~ .· all four countries and see Bos ton, and she makes a point of se rving · ·-- as much of each as your m enus that are a mixture of A merican time will allow. di shes, French dishes, and th e dishes of Majestic fjords, w hatever country she and her husband picturesque countrysides, lovely cities, fairy-tale are in . In each new country, she quickl y towns, sparkling lakes has to acqu aint herself with th e social by the thousands, and - hierarchy-a job that goes far beyond a m ere obse rvance of th e standard rules of a ower-covered Arc with its Midnight Sun. " P rotocol, P recedence, and F ormali _ Go in May or June- ti es" that are se t forth in th e " Foreign - it's SCANDINAVIAN Service Manual"-and she is proud of _ FESTIVAL time - being able to say that she has never seat mber, to I ed anyone im properly at th e di nner ta see and shop for · ble. In Rio, the Cabots seldom have an the latest home ·• ' · ..,, evening to themselves; if they aren't en furnishings during the DESIGN tertaining, th ey are being entertai ned, CAVALCADE. by Brazilians or by other m em be rs of the diplomati c colony. Cabot doesn't much See a Travel Agent. Write : en joy rich, formal dinn ers-his wife says SCANDINAVIAN TRAVEL COMMISSION that each week he begin s to look green Dept. 26, Box 260, New York 17, N. Y. after his fo urth-but he realizes they are both un avoidable and, on occasion, valu abl e. " The social w hirl in th e old days was a major fea ture of diplomacy, and this was mainly because th e people who crea ted pol icy w ere the ones who would naturally ci rculate sociall y," he says. "It's still true, of course, though not nea rl y to the extent it was. Now you have to entertain and go out, but you also have to fin d time to do w hat yo u consider really important- moving around the co untry and talking to all kinds of people, for instance. T hese acti vi ti es keep you awfully busy and make di plomati c li fe more complica ted, bu t then all life is m ore complicated nowadays, isn't it?" L ife fo r Cabot in the nea rly two years he has now bee n in Brazil has again been complicated by severe r tria ls th an receptions and dinner parties, especially during the last several months, w hen that I've found the there was a changeover in administra tion in Brazil as well as in the United jacket e d sleeveless States. W ith the electi on last October Da c ron ® polyester and of J anio Quadros, as P resident, replac in g J uscelin o Kubitschek, and with th e c otton, in black and taupe or olive election of Presid ent K ennedy, Cabot had to deal with the reorientati on of Knowledgeable. people drink Imperial. a nd putty, sizes 6 to 16 by Craely, A meri can economic and social policy in Brazil. T his task was not made any 24 .95 Spectator Dress Shop, easier for C abot by his uncertainty over It's a matter of taste (and value). his own future- w hether or not Presi IMPERIAL Se cond Floor, lord & Taylor, New York dent K ennedy w ould w ant him to re- \~-
HIPAMWALl A~OT, who is fifty-nine years old, C IS the only member of his immedi ate family ever to have chosen a diplo matic career (Henry Cabot Lodge is his fourth cousin on ce removed), and by doing so he broke a tradition in which practically all Cabots became merchants or indu trialists or doctors. He is in the fortunate position of bene fiti ng from a family fortune that pro Galey & Lord vides him with a private income of gen erous proportions-something that an ambassador needs nowadays unless he and Imp Originals is willing to limit his entertaining to the modest sort made possible by his allow make a fashion splash ance from the State D epartment. As an am bassador-or Career Minister, to rt give him his official Foreign Service ti I tle-Cabot gets a salary of twenty seven thousand five hundred dollars a year, and his so-called representation allowance in Brazil is eight thousand dollars a year, which i fairly high as these things go, yet is scarcely adequate for th e a mount of entertaining he has to do. Cabot's money does not come, as some Latin-American critics of United States policy have charged, from the United Fruit Company, of which hi older brother Thomas was once presi dent, but from the Cabot Corporation, th e world's largest producer of carbon black. The company, w hich has annual sales of sixty million dollars, was started back in 1882 by Cabot's father, God frey L owell Cabot, who has just turned a hundred, and who, until he began to declin e in health a few years ago, This remarkable treatment stops stains before they happen. walked spryly every day, rain or shine, Spills simply float on the fabric surface ... between th e fa mily's Boston home, at disappear at a dab of a tissue. And the protection lasts 242 Beacon Street, and his offi ce on Enjoy that through repeated laundering or dry REFRESHING NEW FEELING Franklin Street, two miles away. cleaning. Thomas Cabot now runs the busi you get from Coke! Put zing in your busy day and ness, and though J ohn was never inter ested in it as such, he hasn't objected to Imp Originals plays plaid jacket more zest in your meals sharing in its profits. to solid-color shorts. Dacron* polyester/ with ice-cold Coca-Cola at cotton blend, shielded from stains by "SCOTCHGARD" D espite having rejected a typical Repeller. Stone-blue and berry tones; Cabot ca reer, the Ambassador remains toddler 2 to 4; regular 3 to 6. About $13. Macy's, New your favorite fountain. Coca-Cola York; Marshall refreshes you best! unquesti onably a Cabot in manner and Field, Chicago; Stix, Baer & Fuller, St. Louis; Meier & Frank, appearance. H e is tall-six feet three Portland; L. Strauss, Indianapolis. and rangy, and has a long, rather bony 48 face, with a long, thin nose beneath a lofty brow. H e wears a carefully trimmed mustache on a broadly curved upper lip that is often raised in a toothy smile but seldom in a hearty laugh. His bouncy movement and exceptionally long legs suggest a tennis player, and, in fac t, he is one, having won trophies in club tournaments in a number of the capitals to which he has been assigned. On the court, he dresses in flawless, for mal white. Elsewhere, he dresses well but casually, fancying white shirts with button-down collars and soft-colored suits a nd ti es. While the State Depart ment is more tolerant of informality these days than it used to be, Cabot ~vk11tQI{, stc;pes Stcawbe"y occasionally carries the new tendency Pink and Classic Blue Denim to a point that embarras es some of 1with clear White for new his more conservative confreres. One Biarritz Sunabouts. Crisp Foreign Service officer recalls an eve sophisticates in wrinkle-free ning in Washington when he and his "Endowed" Denim by wife were to meet the Cabots at the McCAMPBELL Sulgrave Club for dinner before they all went ou t on a bowling date. "There was some question about how to dress, right: back-buttoned Target and I compromised on a brown flannel Sundress about •15 suit and a pair of rubber-soled above: Knee Pants about •a sports Back-buttoned Overblouse shoes," this associate says, "but when we about•7 got to the club, Jack came striding in with the dirtiest pair of tennis shoes on WOODWARD & LOTHROP I've ever seen, along with an old pair of Washington, o.c. slacks and a sports jacket. Eyebrows ______went up all over the dining room, but, 1 being a Cabot, he didn't mind at all." If being a Cabot makes it easy for the Ambassador to disregard censure, there are times when it weighs him down. " ] ack is proud of his name, of course, but he wears it and his back ground as both a sceptre and a scar," another of his diplomatic associates has said . "There's nothing ostentatious about him, and he's not any kind of a snob, or even an iota snooty. In fact, he's extremely gregarious and friendly, not to say a bit Saint Bernardish. H e can't help what he is, though. Just b eing Ask any policyholder of ours what he or she thinks of a Boston Brabmin has made him give quite our policies, our representatives, our company. If you a lot of people the impression that he's a stiff fellow. It's something There are four fine Chryslers: Newport, Windsor, New Yorker and the most powerful of a/1-3OO/0. conclude the answer is prejudiced-too favorable, too he's fully aware of, and he fights it all many superlatives- then ask any of .our competitors. the time, but no matter how bard he fights, be can never convince some peo It's a matter of great satisfaction to us that our com ple that h e's anything but an inbred petitors speak as well of us as do our policyholders. New Englander. You can take one look at J a-ck and listen to him say five words, and you know he couldn't possibly be Benefit is our middle name car when it has a job to do! This tiger is Tale-nts like these, inherited from its spirited from one of the rectangular states. The fitted out with a superb suspension design sire, the 300-F, prompted Tom Mccahill, historical state is obviously his home. H e SAND BLASTER that gives you track-sure handling on rough dean of automobile experts to say: would never get into a club in P eoria." Point the 300-G down a sandy trail well off est terrain and "hairiest" turn. Another Foreign Service officer who "As a Gran Turismo competitor nothing can MUTUAL BENEFIT LIFE the beaten track. Its walloping getaway stems from a ram come close to this hell-for-leather product!" * admires Cabot's zeal for roving about induction powerhouse. 30-inch manifold INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY· SINCE 1845 but who isn't convinced that be ever Stop it. Start it again ... just for the boot Orchids like these are rare. But then the you'll get out of it! tubes ram fuel and air into the chambers "G" (be it hardtop or convertible) is admit gets to know people really well, or with incredible velocity. You get ground that people get to know him, says, The "G" will blast up a veritable "sand tedly a rare kind of car for a rare kind of man. missile acceleration. And you feel it when •Article on 300-F in Mechanix Illustrated , May 1960. storm" around you ... plus a deep-throated the "G's" wrap-around leather bucket seat growl that tells you this is no mild-mannered gives you a spine-tingling belt in the back! CHRYSLER 300/G 50 51 ' "I could never get over the feeling, 'I, whenever I went to see him, that I ought to have my cap in my h~nd." An? • businessman 111 Scandi DENIM DANDYS an American II navia, recalling that he first saw Cabot For the first time - at a Sibelius festival in Helsinki a mun tapered, well-tailored DEN IM slacks. ber of years ago, recalls, "He was sitting with his head tilted up, his long nose 111 blue, navy, All cotton in faded the air, his lips pursed, his mustache or oyster white denim. II aquiver, and my first instinct was to sock him in the jaw. The more I came to Sizes 10-16 11.95 know him, the more I realized he real Shown with a white cotton sleeveless blouse ly wasn't the way he looked and acted, ll It was a Sizes 10-16 7.95 and the better I liked him. )I strange thing, though-as we got to_ be PLEASE ADO !SOC F'OA SHIPPING. good friends, I switched from callmg (J him 'Mr. Cabot' to 'Sir,' and ended up with 'Mr. Ambassador.'" I) The member of the Cabot clan, who, according to the Ambassador's wife, "are many, tight-knit, and passion ~ ii -?~~ ~~ ate about each other," are his staunchest admirers but also his severest critics. ~~-?~ His brother Thomas, who !?refers sail s ing and mountain climbing to tennis, bu9.(4- II says, "] ack has struggled hard aga~n t both clumsiness and shyness, and thirty FR,4NJ mat . . . must seek to act wisely on the basis family home she en joyed showing off of his forecasts-and he must never forget to her guests her son's surprising famili to have his rubbers and his raincoat handy even when the diplomatic forecast is "fair." arity with remote spots on the globe. ... When a diplomat gets hit by critical Her husband was a far more formidable mudballs, it is practically impossible for character. An ardent and sometimes him to make a real reply .... Obviously, in domineering ascetic who abominated a name-calling contest with his critics, a diplomat hasn't a fair chance to get his smoking and drinking-and still does story before the public .... He cannot be he wouldn't permit either in his house. tray confidences. He cannot reveal secret Indeed, as a prominent member of the information, often obtained from secret :Tew England \Vatch and \Vard Soci sources. He cannot cackle in triumph over a good deal he has made, or his opposite ety, he crusaded vigorously against vice number in another country will be on the in all its forms, which for him included spot, and he will pay plenty when he next cardplaying. "Growing up as the son tries to negotiate. of a man who rides forth against sin is Iotwithstanding Cabot's dissertation an experience you don't forget," Cabot's on the restraints imposed upon a diplo brother Thomas says. "Jack's memory mat's tongue, he has a reputation in the of it may be a little blurred, though, be State Department for blunt speaking. cause he was out from under Father's "If he believes in something, he speaks influence more. He's never smoked up, and he doesn't care where the chips much, but though he's not what you'd fall," one of his friends there says. Sig call a drinker, I'd say .by now he's pretty nificantly, his candid talk to the ladies in used to those two highballs before din Boston was made right after he had ner." Cabot perc, for all his idiosyncra been eased out of his biggest job to sies, has been in many respects a most date-that of Assistant Secretary of remarkable man, who did not limit his State for Inter-American Affairs activities to crusading against R istonian and was in a state of diplomatic limbo, corruption, or even to building up a with his appointment as Ambassador to successful business. One of the e,1rliest Sweden still unconfirmed. In the same advocates of aviation in America, he speech, by obvious implications, he crit learned to fly at the age of fifty-two and, icized Senator Joseph McCarthy, who as a lieutenant in the Naval Reserve, was then riding high as a foe of Com piloted his Burgess-Dunne seaplane on munists and was not exactly patrol around Boston Harbor the safest target for a Foreign during the First \Vorld \Var. NEW KODAK SOUND S PROJECTOR Service man to go after. In comparison to all this, Cabot's admirers believe that anything the Cabot sons did he could not have spoken was very likely to seem pale Now add sound to your 8mm movies! otherwise-that his frankness at least, in the beginning. is not an acquired character Certainly the youngest Cabot The sound of children's songs and the edge of your processed film.Then To edit the sound track at any time, istic but a family trait. didn't get off to a brilliant laughter and chatter . . . you simply project your striped film you simply erase by reversing the start. A schoolmate of his at Background music that fits right with the Kodak Sound 8 and record film, and then re-record. ·what could ABOT was born in Cam Browne & Nichols, a private in with your travel and vacation your commentary and music right be easier? C bridge, Massachusetts, preparatory school in Cam on the.film. movies . .. Because the Sound 8 Projector is on December 11, 1901. He bridge, remembers him as The voices of the whole family at If you're recording voices, you use made by Kodak, you can be sure of had two brothers ( the elder, "an awkward, pudgy kid who parties and holiday get-togethers ... the microphone that comes with the brilliant screen images, as well as James, died in 1930) and was so unkempt that some of projector. If you're recording music quality sound. See-and hear-the one sister, all older than us took soap and water one You can add them all to all your or special sound effects, simply use Kodak Sound 8 Projector demon he. "Jack was very much the day and washed his face and movies, new or old, with the exciting your record player or tape recorder. strated at your Kodak dealer's. You'll youngest of the family-an hands." Cabot may not have new Kodak Sound 8 Projector. flower print as vivid (A phono connector cord also comes like what you see and hear, includ A inward-turning boy who at made much of a mark at school, the age of but he Making your own "talkies" is as with the Kodak Sound 8. This re ing the price-less than $350, or as and co lor-rich as a Gauguin showed four already had an uncanny knowledge at least one sign of breaking easy as this: Ask your dealer to have markable 8mm projector comes to little as $35 down. of geography," his sister recalls. "He away from the sobering influence of painting ... our beautiful his Kodak Sonotrack Coating added to you complete.) Price is subject to change without notice, was always waking me up in the middle father: he raided some nearby celery cotton dress by Marjorie of the night to ask if I knew the depth patches with a friend, Robert Bradford, You be the narrat or. Add a Yo ur ow n record player or new note of realism-a of the Mozambique Channel, or some who later became Governor of Mas new tape recorder can be used to Michael to bloom now and dimension to your movies-by add thing equally ridiculous." Cabot's moth sachusetts. Possibly in another attempt music or sound effects. The adding a running commentary. Kodak Sound 8 Projector gives in the summer months ahead, er was the late Maria Moors Cabot, to escape, he applied for Annapolis, but You can record the whole story you brilliant fidelity. And in whose name when he was yellow-and-green or and memory, at his in accepted, he changed his of your vacation while it's still Kodak's Alfcnol magnetic head stigation, his father has endowed several mind, and, in the fall of 1919, duly fresh in your mind, give your will record for coun tlcss turquoise-and-lilac on white, hours journalism prizes awarded annually by entered Harvard. 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Basically, though, I think I just fell into it-like stepping on a slip THESE seven sprightly peq rock and falling into the water. shirts got their blossoms Two years at Oxford, after Harvard, in England, where daf did the trick, I guess. I grew a mus tache and became interested in modern fodils and primroses are • This packable print \\'eighs a cool 3 ounces, hi tory, so I decided, I suppose, to as common as April thanks to the gossamer fabric that Liberty uses. showers. become part of it." Years later, in a Hence the heavenlv Harvard anniversary classbook, Cabot color - printed fo.r wrote, with a trace of diplomatic irony: "I joined one Lady Hathaway at Liberty's, the great of those dying profes and famous fabric house on London's sions in 1926; the telephone and the Regent Street. like had doomed it, and I wore out my striped pants \Vhen Sir Arthur Liberty began print several years ago trying ever more breathlessly to keep up ing fabrics in I 87 5, his friends \ Vhistlcr with it. I entered and Rossetti were full of fascinated advice. the Foreign Service Octo ber I, 1926, spent siJs. months ,Vhich may explain why Liberty Prints in Foreign Service school, and then, a rc still the most exquisitely colored, the since I w;:s studying most romantic in the world. French and knew no Spanish, was naturally sent as vice -co nsul The fabric itself is an airy, all-cotton to lawn. And Lady Hathaway tailors it with Lima, Peru." Cabot has described his first post as the same cunning and care that go into "a vice-consul's dream." Hathaway's famous shirts for men. He was one of "three Foreign Service colt in train l Price: about $ I 2 a shirt. ing" there, he says, adding, For store names and for our Haurlv "\Ve were young and frisky and out to save th Dictirmnry of Shirts mlfl Shirtings, write t~ e world. So we saved young sailors who Lady Hathaway, Waterville, Maine. Or had drunk too much and were interested call OXford 7-5566 in New York. ANY SEASON IS HOUDAY SEASON IN ITALY in sowing their oats, as we were. I brought along a little Buick road.ter and Great mountains with lots of snow for winter sports we used to go tearing up into the Andes 1 • otice how precisely the pattern is matched • You can also have this sh irt in heathery shades exploring new roads that had just . . . sunny beache and parkling lakes for summer across the front-a Ladr Hatha\\a)" hallmark. of blue. Or in compatible lilacs and browns. opened up." \\Then he wasn't rescuing relaxation ... natural and man-made beauty every befuddled mariners or roaring about in • Unseen ,·irtues: tidy little darts nip in your • Convertible collar. Wear it safely buttoned • Here is Liberty's lir•elie.rt print of the year, his Buick, he issued visas, validated pass where ... picturesque villages and magnificent cities ll'aistline, and a soft pleat runs dovvn the back. -or dashingly 1mbuttoned like the girl below. It comes in a summery slce,·cless style, too. ports, wrote commercial reports, and ... art collections performed the other routine chores that unique in the world ... Fashion are the lot of a Foreign Service colt. able shops with exquisite products of the local handi After eighteen carefree months in Peru, Cabot was transferred to the craft . . . uperb cuisine and delicious wines ... a gay Dominican Republic, then called Santo social life, cultural events, folklore ... it's all there! Domingo, where he found himself in the middle of a musical-comedy politi cal situation. Rafael Trujillo, who wa SEE YOUR TRAVEL AGENT NOW! then head of the National Guard, had engineered things in such a way that a garrison under his command in the city of Santiago was fomenting a revolution ITALIAN STATE TOURIST OFFICE-E.N.I.T. and a garrison under his command in Palazzo d' Italia, 626 Fifth Avenue, New York 20, N. Y. the city of Santo Domingo (now Ciu Chicago: 333 N. Michigan Avenue, New Orleans: lnterna dad Trujillo) was oppo ing it. In this tiona Trade Mart, San Francisco: St. Francis Hotel wa), Trujillo, who actually favored the revolution, managed not to show his hand. Cabot darted back and fo rth be- 60 tween the two cities, acting as a deh y ~~ /-- ✓ ~ ing diplomatic force of one, and suc • ,' ceeded in keepin g the garrisons from ~~ clashing until the tension had subsided / som ewhat. "The Santiago garrison finally m arched on Santo Domingo," Cabot says, "but by then the atmosphere ' had calmed down a bit. Even though th ere was a certain amount of shootin g, it wasn't as serio us as it might have been ea rlier, when the crowds were out and angry." In D ecember of 1930, having helped for th e moment to prese rve th e peace air- in Santo Domingo, Cabot was sent as third sec reta ry to th e American Em own sailor bassy in Mexico City, where he m et his future wife. H er father, H erbert dress-white spring! L ewis, had bee n a mining man and a real-estate ope rator there until his Arne! triacetote death, in 1922 . After attending Vas sa r and th e Sorbonne, Elizabeth L ewis had returned to Mexico City to becom e to 6 x, 10 .95 social secretary to th e current Ambas sador, J. R eu hen Clark, and his wife. to 12, 12.95 She and Cabot were married in Mexico City on April 2, 1932. C abot's family in Boston had bee n a tdle shocked Floor, the Seventh to learn that he had becom e engaged before they were giv en an opportunity to lord & Taylor look the girl over, and the fact that th ey still had not seen her when he marri ed New Yark her did nothing to reassure th em, but they comforted th emselves by obse rving that lie was thirty years old, so it w as about time. After th e wedding, the bride and groom sa il ed for France, where they took a motor trip and Cabot introduced his wife to the joys of wan dering about in old churches-a hobby of his that has persisted to this day. Mrs. Cabot l1a s th e rep utation in the Foreign Service of being the perfect diplomat's wife. Many career men have Villager dressing with a most remarkable flavor, compounded of been held back, and som e have even re selected vegetables. Sleekly signed from the se rvice, because their stylized carrots, peas, beans, and wives proved unable to stand the strain other delicacies, in colors that of perpetual transfers from one strange never grew, are scattered lavishly city to another, and of the neve r-ending over white combed cotton. social obligations th ey are burden ed The shirtdress is still The Shirtdress. with. Mrs. Cabot says, "The important Green, Pink, Orange, Lilac. Sizes 8-16. thing for a boy in the Foreign Service is About eighteen dollars at to catch the right girl early enough and e'i 1961 BY VOLKSWAGEN or AMERICA, INC •• good stores and college shops. ask her, 'Do you think you could stand this? ' If she thinks she can, and she can, it'll be fine. It's a lovely life, yo u know, . but it's important to sta rt young anc.l Volkswagen overdoes it again: 4 coats of paint. ~=;.;;;,.~_;_~---===~ bend with th e years, as we did. You ~ee dividend the factory declared back in No . * beautiful things, and you're always Why four coats of paint when three let's get back to that paint job. vember. It gives the Volkswagen nnish even m eeting old friends and m akin g new would be more than enough? First the VW. is literally submerged in more transparency and depth. (You don't ones whereve r you go. It's a tight little For the same reason that we nnish the in paint; bathed in it. Then baked, and sanded. look at ii; you look info it.) And, of cou rse, society, this family of diplomats. In a side of the Volkswagen door jamb like the Coat No. 2 is sprayed on. Baked . Then every way, it was much better years ago, when visible inch is sanded by hand. Coat No. 3: it's still another protective coat THE VILLAGER INC. outside of the car. And seal the underside against the wea ther. we had to find our own houses, and go of the VW so that it's more like a ship's sprayed on. Baked . Fully sanded again. Coat 1407 Broadway, New York This is the sort of excess that into th e m a rket place to do our own bottom than a car bottom. No. 4: sprayed on. Baked. Whew! makes a Volkswagen a Volkswagen. shopping, and depended on our longer- Who'll know the difference? We will. Incidentally, the fourth coat is an extra 63 62 established neighbors, whether they were diplomats or not, for help. We • learned by osmosis. ow we have Amer ican residences and American commis saries, and we all live on top of each other too much. There isn't nearly the fun and adventure there used to be." HE Cabots had hoped to return to T Mexico after their honeymoon, but even before they sailed for France, Cabot got word that he had been trans ferred to Guatemala. Then, the day before the couple were scheduled to leave Paris for the new post, he received ..,..~'g a cable informing him that he was being •--f:j ~~ sent to Brazil instead. "I handed Eliza Denim Raincoat .:.~~~- beth a cognac before I told her, and Blue denim takes to showers like a duck , ~ -~-t?i-: :.:.. :.: :r#)~ that's been th e signal for startling news brightens things up with a red paisley lining. ever since," Cabot says. In Brazil, the (May also be worn without the showers.) Cabots established their first home, and Modeled after the Ladybug look, by John Meyer of Norwich, it has a pan collar, cheerful red their first two children were born stitching, ocean pearl buttons. 8 to 16. $} ].95 there-Marjorie Moors Cabot, who is now twenty-eight and married to a ORDER BY MAIL add 50c for postage \, Mexican public servant, and John God- Catalog on request J ~ frey Lowell Cabot, a twenty-six-year f:-,,: old graduate of the Harvard Business l"c"' ~'~ .,:_~ €.t>\~!,U~ School, who works for the Cabot Corpo ~~""''\ti, ...... ration. The Cabots have two other ~-\~-~~~~..... ,,. ... .:, children-Lewis Pickering Cabot, '' twenty-three and a student at Harvard, who was born in The Hague, and Eliz abeth Tracy Cabot, eighteen and a ...... , .. -. ,. .... ~ .... -.... -..... -· ...... - / student at Vassar, who was born in \Vashington. By mail from Bermuda It was also in Brazil that Cabot Indian Madras Handbags. learned how to be a mobile diplomat. Authentic hand-loomed, vege When the Cabots arrived in Rio, the table-dyed, bl ended patterns. 8- Ambassador was an old-timer named inch Bermuda cedar handles. Made Edwin Morgan, who had been there in our workrooms. State colour since 1912. H e had not only created ings you prefer. $6.80 postpaid. excellent relations between Brazil and Luxurious English Doeskin the United States but become something Gloves. A T rimingham specialty. of a power in the country. "Morgan was White shortie slipons with dress one of th e most unusual men I've maker stitching. They wash beauti ever met," Cabot says. "Everyone con fully. In quarter sizes 6 to 8. fided in him. He seldom bothered to $2.95 postpaid. report to Washington. The only trou Only the look ble was that since he did everything himself, he wanted the rest of us to keep is priceless out of his way. The night we arrived in Rio, we attended a party at the Em David Crystal's newest: creamy bassy, and when I walked into the Dial broadcloth of Arnel triacetate office the next morning, Morgan and cotton. Arnel makes it crease roared, '\Vhat are you doing here?' I less, machine-washable, lightning thought it was th e end of my career. to iron- pleats and all I Beige, Then he said th at his orders to me were black, green, blue; 8-18; about $25. to go around and meet people, and not Best & Co., N. Y.; Julius Garfinckel to come back until I could tell him some & Co., Washington, D. C.; Joseph thing about Brazil that he didn't know. Horne The leaders prefer •, Co., Pittsburgh; I. Magnin, Over the succeeding months-except nation's California & Seattle; Neiman now and then when I'd slink into the ,, Marcus, Dal las. Celanese® Amel® Embassy to help out with some paper work-my wife and I wandered all ~e.., JAe over Brazil. It was wonderful not to live Write Trimingham's, Hamilton, Bermuda, DE LUXE SCO Dept. N-5. Send for illustrated catalogue contemporary fibers in a glass house. The minute any Bra- ORTERS: CARILLON IMPORTERS, LTO., 730 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK , N. Y. 86.8 PROOF and colourful Bermuda folder. SOLE U.S. IMP - • 65 64 zilian said, 'Corne upcountry with me,' • we jumped at the chance. We took a th rec-week trip down the Parana River to Paraguay in a dinky little river boat, stopping at every river town. The food was had, hut we didn't care. \Vhen I got hack to Rio after that jaunt, Mor gan smiled at me for the first time." Morgan retired in the spring of 1933 hut remained in Brazil as a private citi zen. "After he and his successor, Hugh Gibson, had taken one look at each other, they decided to dislike each other cordially," Cabot recalls. "Since Mor gan had a lot more contacts there than Gibson had, he became a kind of alter ambassador, and all of us at the Em bas y were caught in the middle. It couldn't have heen more embarrassing. The broken crockery was all over the place." \Vhen Morgan died, in 1934, things were more placid. Cabot now spent pins of his time mostly at his desk, busy with designs these distinctive ruby aurora with tiny mock mundane matters as analyzing the such emerald leaves ... to be worn Brazilian budget, working out details of separately or as a pair on your the Brazilian debt settlement with the spring ensemble. United States, and negotiating on tar iffs. Still, Rio in the early thirties, the available at Cabots agree, was "one of the happy B. ALTMAN & CO. living." FIFTH AVENUE• WHITE PLAINS hunting grounds of prewar MANHASSET • SHORT HILLS Carnivals lasted four days and four and other fine stores everywhere nights, and became gay costume parties during which the whole population, in cluding the diplomatic colony, mingled on the A venida and danced. YOUR OPEN GATEWAY to In 1936, after four Latin-American the WONDERS of WINTER assignments in a row, Cabot got his :--,f.•·~ first professional taste of Europe when ···m··· he was sent to The Hague as econd secretary. Life was now growing much Hotel more serious; he arrived in Holland just after the German reoccupation of the Rhineland and left just before l\lunich. ueen \Vatching the interplay of forces, Cabot re.ported extensively to \Vashington on the political picture-the Dutch azi • Party was a nuisance-and on tax and track matters that were affected by the touchy monetary situation, but he ;dso found time to plar in several ten Ila nis tournaments. Th~ Hague was a From Montreal's new Queen Eliza pretty staid place, and the Cabots were beth Hotel it's only a stroll to thea tre, business and financial centers looked upon as a gay young couple -only an hour from winter sports from another world, who knew how to urbane thrills in the majestic Laurentians. Meet The Pepperell Family on Cotton Cay-Imaginary Island in the Sun throw good parties and make exotic Home of the distinctive Beaver Club, Toni Owen separates in beauti Latin drink. "I can still see Queen the Hotel offers five great restau Better than air conditioning-cooling off Cotton Cay style \Vilhelmina at a wedding party for one fully mannered wool jersey rants, TV and radio in every room, of her daughters, sailing across the room underground access to free garage This beautiful waterfall lies right outside the machine-wash. They won't fade, shrink, wilt, or knit.Navy,grey or black,8 to 16. like a full-rigged ship for another one and to major rail and air terminals. Pepperell family's island abode. And it provides wrinkle. Need just a touch of the iron. And they're 'Sanforized Plus' for good measure. Jacket or skirt, each 13.95 of our rum cocktails," Cabot says. "But FAM I LY PLAN • FREE GARAGE them with a major source of satisfaction. Susan the light moments were getting fewer Single from $9 • Double from $13 and Vincent swim in it; while mother ( a civilized She knows, too, these fabrics are impeccably Altman separates, third floor SEE YOUR TRAVEL AGENT OR CALL regards it as a most satisfactory styled in exotic, new island colors and textures. :1nd fewer." HILTON RESERVATION OFFICE beachcomber!) LONGACRE 3·6900 IN N. Y. C. -A I Moreover, she has utter confidence in the Fifth A venue, l\Ianhasset, In the late summer of 1938, Cabot washing machine for the family's wash-wear sports Pepperell = or any Hilton Hotel-Carte Blanche welcome Pepperell name. And why not? This is the famed was sent to Stockholm for what he clothes. Which are tagged Pepperell, of course! wasli•wear :i: White Plains, Short Hills, A CNR HOTEL - OPERATED BY HILTON INTERNATIONAL cottons o New England company that has been making thought would be a few weeks of filling Her reasons are many. She knows these fabrics fine Lady Pepperell Sheets for over 100 years! MU 9-7000 in for someone else; it turned out to be ~.,i:.Jr.:.Jr.:.t-,::-!:.,::.Ji-'::.~:.ii.:J'i·'(.~:-,::.i., will live up to what the tag promises. They will 66 67 a six-month stint. As th e ranking secre • tary of the Stockholm Embassy, he kept reporting on the growing war menace, and as a tennis enthusiast he played against the late King Gusta vus V in doubles matches. "Since the King had a former Davis Cup star for a partner, I wasn't on the winning side very often," he says. "Anyway, it was good protocol to lose." By this time, Cabot had discovered the existence of a global diplomatic set, whose members would keep bumping into each other as they travelled about the world. "Diplo mats are more aware than most people of the value of carefully exchanged con fidences," he says. "You've got to give in order to get, of course, and be very discreet in your indiscretions, but if I you're careful, you'll find in the long run that you get more than you reveal." In Stockholm, for example, Cabot ran IMPERVION* across a diplomat from a Latin-Amer- ican country whom he had known for by Macintosh some time, and this man passed on to London-tailored of finest Egyptian him a detailed account of how the Nazis cotton, IMPERVION provides the were getting a large amount of oil out highest degree of water-and-stain re- of Mexico. H e relayed the sto ry to pellency. Needs no re-proofing - even after repeated washings or dry-clean- \Vashington and was commended for it. ings. Attractive off-white color,$49.50. However, it didn't cause nearly the Scarf-hood, $3.95. *Trademark sensation around the Department that At all fine stores or write Robert Appleby another of his reports did-a little essay & Co., Inc., sole U.S. importer of Macintosh weathercoats. 250 Parle Ave., New York 17. on Swedish nudist magazines, accom- ,_:-_-:_-_-_-::_-_-:_-.:_:-_-_-_-_-_-::_-_-_-_-:.:_:-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ panied by som e samples, that he sent home as part of a sociological survey. "It's easily the most widely read report in my dossier," Cabot says. In th e spring of 1939, Cabot once D~ again received word that he was being ._, LUNCHEON • DINNER transferred to Guatemala. This time, ,cf!f the transfer went through, and he re ) SUPPER -- >· mained in that country for two years. At that time, Guatemala was governed by the dictator Jorge Ubico Castafieda, Gay, sparkling surroundings ... popular gathering place for Cocktails LET your skin breathe like a child's and when war broke out in Europe, and After-Theatre Suppers. -through Invisible Veil. And never Washington feared that, because of the again stifle it beneath a blanket of existence of a powerful Guatemalan HOTEL ~{)0Je(; German colony, he would prove to be make-up. At a single diaphanous touch pro-Nazi. "I wasn't convinced this 30 West 54th St. Just off Fifth Ave. Cl 7-7300 of Invisible Veil face powder, every would necessarily happen," Cabot says. A Bing & Bing Hotel • Member Diners' Club line and blemish seems to vanish and "There's one thing a dictator wants to Mexico 6½ delightful hours of Italy via Alitalia non-stop Jet the most marvelous change comes over be, and that's master in his own house. Well, in time, Ubico let u know that your complexion. It appears under a whisk you non-stop from New York he was fed up with the azis in his midst On most airlines coffee is coffee and spell, not a powder. For all you see and was willing to hand them over to flying is flying. When you fly with to London. Then you're right next is beaut_.·. Invisible Veil powder will us. \Ve didn't give him a chance to from Acatla n: . , Alitalia, coffee is Espresso and flying is door to anywhere in Eu rope - Scan Heither mist nor fly about. In twelve change his mind. \Vithin forty-eight and at home everywhere! "' \ · especially Italian in every detail. You're dinavia and the North Countries ... hours, we had dispatched a ship to collect Hol\dsome hand-woven cotton, served a sumptuous meal with vintage or for seeing modern Europe at its best irradiant shades blended for you by worn belted high or low. Stripes them. Ubico was a bit taken aback at with blue or flame predominant wines by an expert steward with years continue on by Alitalia Jet to Milan. 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NIX best way to London is the Italian way. throughout Alitalia's European net AL/TALIA Cabot passed the war years in ,vash- ERIC/IN !iHOP l Alitalia's Super DC-8 Rolls-Royce Jets ~work are by Caravelle Jet. AIRLINES 68 ington, first as A sistant Chief of the Voicil Division of American Republics, then as Chief of th e Division of Caribbean and Central American Affairs, The, were rewarding years in some respect.; but in DENISE others they were as frustrating as anr in his ca reer, Specifically, he bec;1me be yond doubt the most unsuccessful road builder in the government's history, Im DARCEL mediately after Pearl Harbor, whrn the Arm,1 was afraid that the Japam·se might try to seize Lower California, it wanted a thousand-mile highwa1 built from th e Mexican border tlown -to the tip of Lower California, Cabot was put in charge of this project. He went ahi:ad and made all the neci:ssal'\ ar rangements, and then, just as th~ dig ging was about to get under way, the Army decided that the pressure w;1s off and the road wasn't necessar\', "'Ve had to apologize to the ;\,1 exic;ns," Cabot Sa} s. "Fortunatd), the\' weri: 1·er1 nice rhanteuse.' Bc:au11fullv situated between Cannes and about it." " rhen the G~nnan subn~arine Nice:. 250 ro;,ms with private bath and shower, campaign was at its height, the Army mod<:rn har, dinnu and dancing on the terrace: di:manded a fi fteen-h und red-mill- road with Marcc:I Bianchi Orchestra, Private beach with snack bar, tennis and go IL New Night Cap from northern Guatemala to the Canal Room, also exclusive Boutique and Beauty Zone. "At the last minute, the Army Pa, lor. ~O minutes from Nice Airport, Open from E,tst<:r to Octobc:r. backed out on that one, too," Cabot re Dorothy Jay Gould. O1nier See Yo11r Tra,•cl Agent. Represented hv call s, "Once again, there was consid OLIVER - KERMIT HOTEL AS5OCIATES. INC. erable explaining to do," Still another 521 FHlh Avenue, Tew York 17, :S. Y Yt 6-1800 Cabot project that the Armr nipped in the bud had to do with quinine, " 7 he n the Asian supply was cut off by the (f) FRANCE • SWITZERLAND J apanese, he began negotiations with several Central American countrie. to 6 grow the stuff, but then Atabrine came i GRA~~ ~0UR,n ~ ('omedienne! along and the Armr called the deal o OF ~ off. He made the be;t of the fiasco br ~ BRITAIN AND ~ arranging to have ]\t1anila hemp grow;1 ~ EUROPE -< in Costa Rica and Honduras, and rub O 9 countries • 62 days ber in Guatemala, which also agreed to CJ Sail June 30 from New York on s,s, Rotterdam, return Aug.30 on s ,s. r export mahogany for PT boats.~"There (f) Nieuw Amsterdam. S2,122 complete, 0 including round-trip 1st class passage, rn were times when I felt I was more of chartered motorcoach, 1st class hotels, 0 a produce-and-marketing man than a Z meals, tips, taxes, etc. Escorted again I <( this year by Mrs, Raymond L, -i diplomat," he says today. _J Dickinson. See your travel agent or rn CJ THE In 1944, Cabot attend ed tht D um z Z HOUSE OF TRAVEL (/) The light Scotch that's becoming the heavy favorite barton Oaks Conference as an adviser W 17 East 49th St., N, Y. 17, N, Y. MU 8-0185 -i on Latin-American affairs, and shortly rn afterward he was senior advi.er at the LUXEMBOURG• BELGIUM z ... with both sides of the house Inter-American Conference on Prob Coquette! lems of ,var and Peace, in l\lfexico City, where the Act of Chapultepec, It's "HIS and HER Time" all over America ... when both Hers is the whole world of l'amour-. setting up a system of hemispheric de settle down around HOUSE OF LORDS and agree it's the best With the flick of an eyelash, the turn of fense, was proclaimed. He then attend ed the San Francisco Conference, again a phrase, the lilt of a Gallic lyric, Darcel decision of the day. Wonderful scotch. Try it as an adviser on Latin-American affairs, at your house! enchants, amuses, enthralls. She makes and while there he received word that free with her unique brand of magic he had been appointed as Counsellor of at 9:30 and 12 nightly except Sunday. Embassy at Buenos Aires. In his autobi Emil Coleman and his orchestra. ographical sketch for Harvard, he notes HOUSE OF LORDS OPENING MONDAY, MARCH 6 that the appointment came th rough _EMlPIRE ROOM OF THE "just as the dead cats were really be PORTRAITS , INC the 'HIS and HER' scotch ginning to fly;" that is, when the big WALDORF ·ASTORIA fight between Ambassador Spruille EXHIBITION: PORTRAITS BY GORDON AYMAR • MAR, 1-18 EL 5-3000 A HILTO:\ HOTEL Braden and Juan Per6n, the Argentine 136 EAST 57th STREET NEW YORK BLENDED SCOTCH WHISKY • 86 PROOF• IMPORTED SOLELY BY GLENMORE DISTILLERIES COMPANY, LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY © 1960 70 dictator, was starting. At the time, PRIDE OF COGNAC Peron was widely accused of harboring Nazi , and Braden set ou t not only to REMY MARTIN clean up the Nazi situation hut to oppose v.s.o.P. the Per6n regime and encourage its All Cognac is brandy, but not all domestic enemie, . "Braden soon dis brandy is Cognac ... and covered that P erc1n had a good many only some Cognac is V. S. 0. P. more Nazi friends than we supposed 0 and had no intention of getting rid of them at our behest," Cabot explained REMY MARTIN : recent!}. " Taturally, I never held any v.s.o.P. brief for Peron, but it's my belief that Rare, indeed, is the superb quality the moment we do anything to antago y Martin that distinguishes Rem nize a ruling faction, especially in Latin V.S.0.P.-Very Superior Old Pale. America, we just help keep it in power, can be found at these stores: PRIDE OF COGNAC and I don't think Per6n would have NEW YORK CITY & VICINITY lasted as long as he did if Braden hadn't Weber & Heilbroner & Branches Gimbels & Branches kicked up such a fuss . Yet, as I look REMY v.s.o.P.MARTIN ALBANY, N . Y. • Mcl\lanus & Riley back on it, it was one of the most in ATLANTA, GA . • l\luse's & Branch BALTIMORE , MD. · Hecht- 1ay & liranchcs No Cognac of lesser quality than teresting things I've seen, because Bra Hochschild, Kohn & Branches V. S. 0. P. is permitted BIRMINGHAM, ALA. • J. Blach & Sons, Inc. den was so forceful and magnetic that by BOSTON, MASS . • Wm. Filenc's Sons Co. & Branches to bear the Remy Martin label. breaking all the rules he almost won KcJ111ecly's & Branches BRIDGEPORT , CONN . • Arcade i\len's Shop PRIDE OF COGNAC the hand." CHARLOTTE , N . C. • J. B. I vey & Co. after CHATTANOOGA, TENN . • Hardie & Caudle In the late ,ummer of 1945, CHICAGO, ILL. • Lytton's & Branches MARTIN thoroughly antagonizing Perc'm, Braden CINCINNATI, OHIO• Mahley & Carew Co. REMY v.s.o.P. Burkhardt's went home to become Assistant Secre CLEVELAND, OHIO • The Jlallc Bros. Co. & Branches In 110 countries, all over the American Republic COLUMBUS , OHIO · The Union Co. tarr of State for DALLAS, TEXAS • E. III. Kahn & Co., Inc. & Branches world, this is the Affairs, and Cabot found himself tem Hcynolds-Pcnland Co., Inc. Cognac of connoisseurs. & Branches poraril) in charge. H e remained charge DAYTON , OHIO. Barrar, McCray & Trick DENVER, COLO . • The Gano-Downs Co. PRIDE OF COGNAC d'a:ffaires in Buenos Aires for eight Hobert Wilson Co., Inc. during which the Perc1n and Demer Dry Goods Co., Inc. months, DES MOINES, IOWA• Younker's & Branches REMY MARTIN the anti-Peron forces were fighting it DETROIT, MICH. • J. L. Hudson Co. & Branches V.S.O.P. EL PASO, TEXAS • The White H ouse out. "There I was," he recalls, "having Union .fashion FORT WORTH, TEXAS • ,vasber Bros. to implement a policy of forcing the issue A. Da,is Co. that I didn't altogeth er believe in my INDIANAPOLIS, IND . • L. s. Ayres Co., Inc. JACKSONVILLE, FLA . • Le,·y's self, with the si tuation getting more out KANSAS CITY, MO. • Palace Clothing Co. J\lacy's & Branches of hand all the time. Scarcelr a day LOS ANGELES, CALIF. • Bullock's Inc. & Branches passed without a riot. The odor of tear LOUISVILLE , KY.• Rodes-Rapier Co., Inc. MADISON, WISC. • Spoo & Son gas was ubiquitous. In October, there MILWAUKEE, WISC. • Milwaukee Boston Store & Branch es was a brief revolution, which for a Toepfer & Bcllack MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. • Juster's while looked as if it might encl P erc'm's 1 Ljemandt s, Inc. career, but unfortunately the anti NASHVILLE , TENN . • Joseph Frank & Sons, Inc. NEW HAVEN, CONN . • Gentree Ltd. Peronistas missed the boat. I remember NEW ORLEANS, LA. • Maison Blanche trying to persuade them to get a wiggle Porter's NOGALES, ARIZ. • Bracher's on, but they simply lacked sufficient OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA . • Kerr's OMAHA, NEB . • J. L. Brandeis & Sons leadership. Peron quickly staged a coun PHILADELPHIA, PA . • Gimbels & Branches with Jackson & Moyer ter-Putsch and was back in power PHOENIX, ARIZ. • Diamond's ten days, producing a new situation, Kenneth J. F low ers in McDougall-Cassou in which it was pretty clear that a vio PITTSBURGH, PA. • Joseph Horne Co. Gimhels & Branches lent reaction against American inter PORTLAND, ORE. • Lipman-Wolfe RICHMOND, VA. • Greentree's, Inc. ference had set in . I started t1ying to im ThaJhimcr's press thi on \ Vashington. As a matter ROCHESTER, N. Y. · McFarlin C lothing Co. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH • Z. C. M. I. of fact, we were making considerable Arthur Frank Hibbs C lothing Co. progress toward the original Braden SAN ANTONIO , TEXAS , D. L. Pincus SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF . • City o f Paris goal of trying to get rid of azi inf! u l\-Joorc's ence in business and cultural circles, and Jack Da,•is SEATTLE , WASH .• Leslie-Hughes had even managed to get ome danger Pragcr's Bon Marche ous Nazis deported, so it was embar SHREVEPORT, LA. • clbcr Bros. ST . LOUIS, MO . • Famous-Barr Co. & Branches rassing to have the State Department Scruggs-V andervoort-B arncy continue its broadsides against Per6n. ST. PAUL, MINN . • H agstrum Bros., Inc. 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Having strongly op posed the degree of our involvement in Argentine affairs, I thought at first that I must either go along quietly with vVashington's strong anti-Peron policy or resign and have my say publicly. Then I came to the conclusion that either course was cowardly and that I would do better to stay on and express my views officially, even if I eventually got thrown out of the Department. Happily-though I didn't know this un til later-there were a lot of far more influential men than myself back home who had come to feel as I did." The clouds began to lift in April, 1946, when George Messersmith was appointed as the new American Ambas sador to Argentina. "I first read about his appointment in the Argentine press," Cabot recalls. "It was somewhat awk ward to get the news that way and to have to dash out and get an agrement for Messersmith to enter Argentina, but luckily my relations with Peron's For eign Minister, Juan Cooke, had always been good, and I got a quick O.K. \Vhen Messersmith arrived, he prompt ly began reversing Braden's policy, and he went at it so hard that by the time I left Buenos Aires, two months later, I thought he had gone too far in the op posite direction. But I didn't try to make an issue of it, as I'd done with Braden." Almost immediately, Cabot was BEEFEATER plunged into another quagmire, for in June of 1946 he was appointed charge d'a:ffaires in Belgrade. "You must re member that Tito was still Stalin's BEEFEATER. fair-haired boy then," he said recently. "There were some signs of trouble brewing, though, and it seemed to me that the Yugoslavs might even tually have a chance to break loose. If they did, it was -essential for them to Martini Men appreciate the identifiable SCARF PRINT! ''THAT LONDON LOOK" AT ITS excellence HANDSOME BEST IN NEW BRITANNIA BLUE of imported THE SHADY LANE SHIRT BEEFEATER GIN ® of soft, washable cotton $5.00 Also boy-sized, boy-priced. Made in Canada, too. McGregor-Doniger Inc .. New York 19, N. Y. UNEQUALLED SINCE 1820 • 94 PROOF• 100% GRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS IMPORTED FROM ENGLAND BY KOBRAND CORPORATION. NEW YORK I, N. Y. 77 76 know that they'd find our door open. This was the basic principle I adopted, and one of my last reports from Bel grade, in July of 194 7, was a long one analyzing the real possibilities of a split ~ and pointing out how we could encour age it. I might add that it was much NEW YORK COllSEUM more favorably regarded by the De partment a year later than it was when I wrote it. By that time the split had MARCH 4-12 'I taken place." In Yugoslavia, Cabot had less difficulty making contact with Tito j_~ than with the people. "In the end, my old way of travelling around the countryside proved best, although, of Al!IQUII course, that wasn't so easy to do then," he recalls. "Once Elizabeth and I were able to get out of Belgrade, we found iWjjJ!l~ t IAil many of the people quite friendly. I re Presenting the finest displays of quality merchan dise from primitive pieces member one time we sent a couple of to porcelains, prints, fabrics, china, glassware and superior period furni jeeps clown to the Bulgarian border, and ture. Discriminating patrons will find a treasure followed along hy train to pick them up store of antiques for sale among the more thon 140 at Nis and motor clear across Yugo eJthibits on the Coliseum ground floor. slavia. The Secret Police, naturally, trailed us all the way hack, but I'm sure DEALERS .. . they had to report a most alarming lack PATRONS .. . of subversive activities. They'd catch DON 'T MISS IT! up with us at every stop-the dust of 1 to 11 P.M. Daily our jeeps made them look as if they'd 2 to 7 P.M. Sunday General Admission $1.50 been dumped into a flour barrel-and Preview Day (March 4) $2.00 it rn ust have been pretty discouraging to find, each time, that we were only look ALL EXHIBITS ARE FOR SALE ing at another monastery." In Belgrade, plenty of diplomatic in cidents arose to plague Cabot, among NEW YORK'S BELOVED them the shooting clown of two Ameri can transport planes over Yugoslavia, Algonquin but the post was a sinecure compared to Superb his next one. The wives of diplomats pre-theatre dining ... and just a stroll to yaur theatre. engage even more diligently than the After-theatre diplomats themselves drinks and Supper in an almost daily Buffet wHh "'the talk of the town" guessing game about where they will be sent next. One clay in late 194 7, after the Cahots had returned to Washington from Belgrade, Mrs. Cabot invited {9t!qon~u\~ some Foreign Service wives to lunch, 59 WEST 44th STRE£1. NEW YORK• MU 7-4400 and throughout the meal they kept Indoor badgering her with questions parking (no charge) for about her dinner guests and weekend visitors. next destination. "One thing I can tell you-we're not going to Shanghai," When you find you're going around she said at last, since this seemed to her in circles, have a cup early bird the most unlikely spot of all for her sign of spring husband. An hour later, Cabot handed !Vear/Ju 811jo11111e11t of tea; most cheerful stuff in the world. Try drinking tea her a g lass of cognac and told her the IN PRINCETON news: he was going to Shanghai, as Enjoy fine food and attractive The understated chic of consul general. Mrs. Cabot clowned the acc_omnfo_dat(ons in a lovely with your evening meal for a week; see if the world settmg this season's fluid line. cognac and then, feeling a little foolish, adJotnmg the Princeton called her luncheon companions. When University campus. I 00 charming guest rooms. Cocktail lounge Pure silk shantung. the Cabots arrived in Shanghai, early in . doesn't look a little brighter. Tea psyches Function rooms. Excellent golf. you up. Navy, toast or spring-leaf 1948, the Communists were sweeping DOUBLE ROOMS FROM $10.00 China, and the city was being plagued WRITE, OR CALL WALNUT 4-5200 green. 8 to 18, 2995 To get the most out of tea- make it hefty, by a wave of anti-American demon hot and hearty. Use one teaspoon or one tea bag per strations-not all of them Comr.nunist cup. Add bubbly, boiling water and brew 3 to 5 min New York • Chicago • Boston , Pl,iladelt,hia • Detroit led by any means. Cabot at once began utes. For instant tea, follow directions on the package. BaUi111ore • Cleveland • St. Louis • Atlanta JU.COUNCIL • St. Paul making speeches in an effort to coun OP THE U.S.A .. INC .• A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION .Miuneat,olis • Indiauat,olis • Buffalo • Kansas Cit, Cinciuuali • Was!tington,D.C. •Hartford • Providence teract what he considered the people's 78 79 "preposterous misconceptions" about the United States and its policies toward China and toward Asia in general. These talks were directed partly at the Kuomintang, which was complaining Is the Peugeot 403 bitterly-and, Cabot still believes, un justifiably-that it was not receiving sufficient aid from the United State and partly at the Communists and thei; a first car or second car? -0 sympath izers. Cabot couldn't do much 2 C of his usual travelling around the ::, 0 countryside, but he made up for it by E hours of wandering en· through Shanghai c::: and observing the people. H e feels-and LLJ ..J quite a few Foreign Service men agree ID ai ID C with him-that a series of reports he 0 0 u .0 filed on the ci ty are among the best he Lt) ~ 0-, ~ ever wrote. " I remember how it dis z N Q) c::: ...... :5 turbed me to be living in one of those 0 -= Ill LL Q) ~ enormous houses, with acres of useless Q) ..J .c Q) > lawn, right in the middle of the city," u~ -0 ...., Q) Ill ....; he recalls. "You can imagine what the >, C .0 ""'u 0 2 families huddled in shanties around our Q) 2 u V> -0 0 Ill wall s could have grown on all that land. .c Ill u 2 regards those two months as his worst EVERYTHING'S HERE experience in the Foreign Service. "As for a good time soon as it became evident that Washing Gay, club-like setting . .. snow white ton wa n't going to recognize the new sands of a safe private beach . . . regime, the Communists really turned swimming in the blue waters of the on us," he says. "They were deter Gulf of Mexico. Championship golf, m ined to be as tough and nasty as they tennis, fishing, sailing. Superb food. could." P artly to keep up appearances For rates, reserva and partly to relax, Cabot continued to tions and color folder,----.:; see your travel agent , play tennis and to entertain whenever or N. Y. Reservation he wasn't feeling too ill. One evening, Office, 30 Rockefeller ;,i .r--+-.-~ a mob of Chine e who had fo rmerly Plaza, Tel. LT 1-3462. been employed by the United States Navy besieged the Consulate General, demanding back pay. "Cabot exhibited great aplomb in dealing with them," an assistant recalls. "He instructed all of us to put our hands in our pockets, as a show of passive resistance, and told the demonstrators quietly that this was no way to settle things. After that, they hung around the building for a while, and we decided not to try to break through the ir ranks and get back to our living quarters." Cabot looks back on the affair philosophically. "The building was blockaded for seven or eight hours," he says, "but we had food How to have a telling way with the ladies and water and light and some whiskey, so it wasn't terribly se rious. Finally, after we had put up cots for the night, 1. Tell them directly. ladies seldom have time for it began to rain, and the crowd got dis LIDO BEACH couraged. That's the way history is indirection. / 2. Tell them excitingly. Whet their usuall y w ritten, you know." In J uly, Cabot flew ou t of Shanghai appetites. Fire their ambitions. Fan their curiosity. with the Ambassador, J ohn Leighton Dare their creativeness. / 3. Tell them explicitly. Stuart. H is experiences had convinced 1Regeit11(Cy R((})((})ffi him that a tou r of duty in a Communi t ... for gracious dining No lady likes to be kept guessing. Every lady welcomes count ry is a must for any ca reer man, An atmosphere of charming E ng and on returnin direction, and cherishes fact. So revive a quaint g home, w here he was lish gardens, impeccable service. • temporaril y a ttached to th e U nitecl French, Conti nental, A merican custom. Use words. Thoughtful words. States D elegation to the United Na gourmet cu isine. Vintage wi nes. All the words 77 ORIGINALS,® noted for their tions, he did a good bit of speaking on A la carte. Luncheon entrees from you f lai r wi t h ra $2.50. D inner entrees from $2.60. need. In one way, they're better than pictures. in wear, admire the China. As usual, he spoke with more Skinn er t alent fo r creating u niq ue candor than many diplomats would You can't listen to pictures. / 4. Tell them face to fa bri cs. For this e lega nt, rai nbow choose to d isplay. H e had no do ubts that face. On their own ground, in their own terms -- where in-the- rain coat, t hey selected t he C hi na's new conquerors were "true, HOTEL ffiARLYLE fanatical, indoctrinated Communists," RHi11 e/a11der 4-1600 one and only Ski nner Tackle Twi l 13 , they're most at home, and most receptive. What we're but he kept emphasizing that the Kuo Madison Avenue and 76th S treet a s uperb blend of rayon and cotton mintang could blame its own corrup- .:, ==:::~~~=::~~~==== leading up to, of course, is: 5. Tell them in The ladies' that takes weat her-proofi ng beau tion and int rigues, and not the lack CHINA t if ul ly. In J r. size~ 3-15. At fin e of suffi cient A merican aid, for the loss Home Journal, which effectively- practices what it LADY st ores throug hout the country. of C hina. His opinions were hardly SHEATH preaches above to millions of the youngest, wealthiest, First in sat in, now in a ll fa brics ... fash ionable a t t he time, but although many of the old China hands who $995 PURE SI LK ppd. most devoted ladies in .America. the were expressing s imilar ideas resigned SH ANTUN G FINE Black material or were forced ou t of the State D e IMPOR TED Mandariti Red I distinction partment in those clays, he escaped COTTON lade hand-made Beige is their fa te, probably because, after a fro gs, \ 10-16 mere eighteen months in the Orient, he , ide slits $2J95 10-16, was not r egarded as one of them. "The S ea Blue ppd. When the Journal speaks-women listen 8lack v SKINNER: chances are that if he'd been in China Pink WILLI AM S K I N NE R & SONS a while longer he'd have got in to the Send for catalogue 12 W. 40th ST., NEW YORK 18, N. Y. R ed Q UA L I TY WEAVERS SINCE 1848 same sort of trouble," one of his friends Turquoise JU 2-3622 1 in the Department says. "But one thing Rf\'tt-01i1,Je /;, is sure-that wouldn't ....» have stopped 15 W. 55 th St., Dept. Y122, N. Y. 19, N. -Y. 82 Jack from saying exactly what he thought." THROUGH his years in the For- eign Service, Cabot had stead ii y advanced in rank, and shortly after his return from Shanghai he was promoted to the position of Career Minister. Since then, except for another period of ser vice in \Vashington, he has been in charge of embassies or legati ons in four countries. The first of them was Fin land, which presented a sharp contrast to China, though the Communist prob lem existed there, too, about twenty per cent of the population having voted for the Party's candid ates. C abot conceived the idea of making informal appear ances before labor groups as a means of co unteracting Communist inf! uence. "It was obvious that a certain amount of Communist mud would stick to th e average workman unless he got enough ideas from the oth er side to wash it off," he says. Accordingly, in the summer of 195 0 he and a young secretary at th e legati on who spoke Finnish took to th e road and m et with various groups at halls throughout the country, making it clear from the start that they were there to answer qu es ti ons. The Finns had plenty of questions to ask, and the sub jects they were particularly interested in were the American attitude toward the Korea n \Var, the nature of the Social Security program in the United States, and th e Negro problem. "\Ve appeared at about a dozen m ee tings," Cabot re calls, "and there was no doubt that they went over well, because th e Finns kept as king for more." Cabot remembers his Finnish a signment with pleasure, and not only for professional reasons. \Vhile he was there, he was intro duced to the sauna-a small concrete This is the kind of break your beard bath chamber hea ted by red-hot rocks could use these days - Arden for Men and when he returned to th e United Foam Shaving Cream. Its light, rich States, he spent three thousand dollars lather acts instantly to smooth and installing one on th e grounds of his soften the way for your blade. Leaves Massachusetts summer hom e. That is your skin looking great, feeling great. one possession the Cabots have not at Ready for the cool, tangy refreshment tempted to carry around with them . BON VIVANTS of Arden for Men After Shave Lotion. In September of 1952, Cabot was It's so easy and so inexpensive to tour appointed Ambassador to Pakistan, but Ireland in the Grand Manner. You can There you have it! Arden for Men who live in baronial splendour for less than want to give their skin a real break. he neve r got there. The change of ad $50 p er week, meals included; you can play golf for as little Foam Shaving Cream, 1.50 ministration in Washington kept him as 70(' a day; you waiting in the capital for five months, can fish, sail, hunt ... and shop the After Shave Lotion, 3.50, 6.50, plus tax. most luxurious bargains. And all this dividing his time between an empty of amidst a scenic beauty of such bril fic e and th e Metropolitan, Chevy liance and grandeur you'll scarce Iv be li eve your eyes. See your Travel A~ent. Chase, and University Clubs. Then, This year, add unexpectedly, he was offered the As sistant Secretaryship for Inter-Ameri can Affairs, an important post that goes IRELAND to your trip sometimes to career men and sometimes For further information write to political appointees. Cabot was glad Jrish Tourist Office (YBM) We promise you a most pleasurable experience when you try on a Michaels-Stern suit. Perhaps·one like this. We have the Courier 01961 EI..IZAIJETH AIIOEN, NEW YO illit to have a crack at the job. H e felt 33 E. 50th St., NY 22 Cloth made exclusively for us, because it is, in our opinion, the finest pure wool worsted ever woven. 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At a private dinner party of American businessmen, he diverted his guests by telling them stori es of his ex periences with the fledgling dictator of twenty-five years before. The tales got back to Trujillo, who was furious and, in an effort to embarrass Cabot publicly, tried to represent him as a pro-Commu nist. The State Department knew better, PTO hut it was not pleased at having one of its high officers get into a row with the dictator. Upon his return, Cabot ir ritated the government in other ways. He declared that the United States should establish correct relations with DATE certain Latin-American nations wheth er it approved of their governments or not, and on the question of economic assistance he clashed with Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey and others in the administration who were Britain tempts the businessman: a subversive advertisement trying to retrench. In March, 1954, he was asked to resign. He submitted his HIS ADVERTISEMENT is designed to like Highland rabbits. Our truant is Lake District, mountain-climbing in resignation in an odd kind of 111ca-culpa T tempt the man who goes to Britain \,·ise. Ask any doctor. \,Vales, or shooting birdies at Hoylake. letter to Secretary of State Dulles. "I on business. It is slightly subversive. Other cities, other temptations. And did you realize that there isn't have found it a handicap that my experi The deer-stalking executive above \Vithin se\·ency miles of Birmingham one British to\\'n more than seventy ence has been predominantly in the for still has work to do in nearby GlasgmL you can hunt cottages in the Cots\\'olds, miles from the sea? Think of what that eign political field," he wrote, "whereas But, for one heathery weekend, he has castles on the Ri,·er \Nye, and colleges means to your family. But that's vaca the problems [ of the job] are largely in put his telescope to his blind eye. Sales in Oxford. And, a couple of hours from tion talk. For more solace for the lonely the foreign economic and financial curves are forgotten. Worries disappear Manchester, you can be fishing in the executive, see photographs below. fields, and their solution requires ex tensive con tacts in the domestic political field." Cabot's resignation was accepted, and soon afterward he was appointed Am bassador to Sweden. The American press wasn't altogether kind to him when he went to Stockholm. "CABOT Good news this spring for Daks collectors. So much to choose SAYS HE'S INCOMPETENT FOR OXE JOB, GETS ..\KOTHER," one headline from ... one pleat or plain front, slim, slender; beautiful British read. However, the Swedes, who are featherweights, brilliant shades. For ease and comfort .. . Daks rather choosy about the kind of am bassadors they get, didn't seem to mind fit every occasion. All over the world men in Daks trousers are on learning that their new one was noticed and admired. • From $29.95. In linen $22.50. At fine coming to them under a cloud. "He's stores from coast to coast, or write Simpson Imports Inc., a full-blooded American, anyway," a HORSE RACING. On-course bookmak THEATRE. London has nearly twice as many first CAR RACING. The Triumph, the MG, Swedish editor wrote, "and not just 9 East 37th Street, New York 16, New York, Dept. NU. ing is legal in Britain. See photograph. rate theatres as New York. At least thirtv other and the Jaguar all came out of British someone of Scandinavian descent with Flat racing goes on from Spring till cities ha,·c fine repertory. You can get the best racing stables. So did Stirling Moss. a yen to see the old country." Cabot's Tailored by S. Simpson Ltd., London, England Fall. Steeplechasing, vice versa. scat at the Old Vic for $2.+o. Above is the start-line at Goodwood. previous short tour in Sweden appar- Founder Member British Men's Wear Guild Fnr free il/11s1rnted hook/et. uBritoin Mn111s R1tri11en." H'P 1•0ur travel ar:e11t or write Box 136. British Travel Association. In New York- 6110 Fifth Ave.; /11 Los A11ge/es-606 South /Jill St.; Ill Chicago- 39 South La Salle St.; Ill Ca,wda-90 Adelaide Street West, Toro11to. • 87 86 ently qualifi ed him further in Swed REVERSIBLE SHIRT ish eyes, for another Swedish editor reported, "He knows a great deal about IN BRIDGE ... • lovely women have Swedish gla and sailing." Today, it is generally conceded in both \Vash EXPERIENCE IS THE GREAT TEACHER made it a legend ington and Stockholm that Cabot proved to be one of this country's most effective and popular ambassadors to IN SCOTCH ... Sweden, and his practice of having give SHALIMAR and-take chats with the workers had a TEACHER'S lot to do with it. "\Vhen I arrived in Sweden, there was a good deal of criti IS THE GREAT EXPERIENCE cism of the United States in the air-a feeling that our foreign policy was some what flighty," he recalls. "A lot was being said about McCarthyism and our racial policies. The Communists were pretty noisy. If they drip poison stead ily, a certain amount seeps in, and I set about trying to administer an antidote instead of just shuffiin g papers at my desk." In his three years in Sweden, Cabot made about sixty appearances at union The shirt with the sea-going air-chartered for sun and fun. Crisp denim in sailing blue halls. His flat, nasal New England reverses to white terry. Complete turnabout voice struck the reserved Swedes as just includes a pocket on either side, collar button right, and they liked his manner of re- and-loop and double-needle stitching for a trim finish. Sides are deeply vented; shirt-tail dips ' sponding to their questi ons about Amer fashionably. Blue denim with white terry. ican life, though to an American he Sm (8-10), Med (12-14) , Lg (16-18). $7.95 might have sounded rather as if he were In Men's sizes too. Sm-Med-Lg. $8.95 conducting a Sunday-school class back Add 35¢ each for shipping. Send for catalog. home. P erhaps the most significant proof THE TOG -SHOP LESTER SQUARE of Cabot's success in Sweden was the AMERICUS, GA . fact that the Russians became more and DINE IN LEISURE AT THE more disturbed abou t him. His influence was publicly recognized when a group of students called at the Soviet Embassy and demanded that someone there an swer their questions, the way th e A mer- ~ ~ THE ican Ambassador was doing; eventually, a few anonymous written answers to queries were sen t out by a messenger, making it clear who had won the verbal battle. Cabot was transferred t o Co lombia in the spring of Designed by Raymond Loewy 195 7, and if the LUNCHEON • PRE-THEATRE DINNER • DINNER Russians were glad to see him leave, the SUPP ER • SUNDAY BRUNCH Swedes STEVEN WELTNER AT THE PIANO were n ot; in fact, Swedish jour Tel. Circle 7-0300 nalists suggested pointedly that his next ESE post wasn't nearly important enough Vincent J. Coyle, V. P. and Mng. Dir. for him. 160 CENTRAL PARK SOUTH If Cabot was inclined to agree, Now, he in a beautiful maintained a diplomatic silen ce. When new jewel-size expected would be only a leave, he helped negotiate a substantial loan to Colombia and arranged a large shipment of surplus food from the United States. • Suddenly ordered to Rio instead of "Meer &4(L back to Bogota, Cabot found an even more critical situation to contend with. ortk. "Brazil was like a jilted woman," he ays. "The Brazilians are a sensitive and ObJJ.dc sentimental people. Traditionally, over a century and a half, we have always r~ had very close relations, and I found ~f" them craving attention, which we hadn't lately been giving them." In fact, the United States had particularly an noyed Brazil by approving of the In ternational Monetary Fund's rejection of a Brazilian request for a loan, on the ground that Brazil's financial structure was badly in need of reform. Cabot's JJ1.eet at the c'Jbelisk, in the "new" first job was to soothe the Brazilians' newly ~edeco~ated lobby. ruffled feelings, and he made a point of Commodo~e's reassuring the government of our con enjoy luncheon, cocktails o~ dinne~ tinuing willingness to assist its economic at one o/ the delightful Commodo~e recovery. When Brazil produced an un the talk o/ eve~yone but usually large coffee crop last year, the ~estaMants ... United States bought half of it, which the Sphinx. .9lave you seen the new improved the situation immeasurably. Commodo~e? Cabot is vastly encouraged by recent de velopments. The new Quadros regime has begun to take firm steps to stabilize the currency and to stop inflation, and ~ 42nd St. at Lexin,ton Avenue New York 17, N. Y. • MU 6-6000 the United States, in the waning days of the Eisenhower administration and in the first days of the Kennedy adminis tration, took a step that Cabot had been urging for years: last September, at a conference in Bogota, the United States decided to put its program for social and economic aid to Latin America on a c:52[ wide selection of luscious golden Now Qantas jets soar to the South Pacific every single day broad, long-range basis, and pledged Tokays, delightful half a billion dollars, as a starter, toward white and robust Latin-American land reform, low-cost red cable wines are housing, health, and education. The available at your program is now being heartily pressed favorite package store and restaurant. by President Kennedy and is up before Congress; if it is approved, as it undoubt SOLE IMPORTERS LOUIS FAUREA edly will be, Brazil's sha re of the aid is VINTAGE WINES, INC 625 WEST S4tll ST,, N.Y. bound to be considerable. This prospect Clrcle S-0100 delights Cabot, especially since it may -we introduce help counteract Brazil's present tend the landlubber ency to establish closer economic and IN political ties with the Communist bloc. WASHINGTON, D.C. shirt Newest member of In his day-to-day dealings with the the casual-living set. Brazilians, Cabot continues to operate IT'S PROTOCOL Young, easy-going overshirt on the theory that an ambassador should TO DINE AT in drip-dry cotton, loomed be seen and heard. Apart from his regu lar appearances before commercial and with the unpressed look. labor groups, he has had informal dis avy, bone, hot pink or cussions with many Brazilians, particu sun yellow. 10 to 16, 695 larly with students, who have ques but Wednesday. ti oned him sharply about Washington's policy toward Fidel Castro, about end SIX QANTAS 707 JETS A WEEK from San Francisco to Fiji and Australia-more than all other airlines combined! 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I '23 Not long ago, another crimin::il matter too came into Cabot's ambassadorial orbit, a Side Car, when he helped to negotiate an extradi tion treaty between Brazil and the United States. Aimed at "the repression of crime," the treaty, which still re- 1 quires Congression::il approval in both countries, would enable J usticc Depart ment officials to bring back a few prom inent American malefactors who have T HE CLIFFORD COLLAR recently fled to Brazil. adapted from our famous These days, C::ibot's life is compli button-down collar shirt cated by the fact that Brazil has two This good-looking shirt is made capitals-the new inland city of Brasilia in our own workrooms ... with and Rio de Janeiro. The Brazili::in gov shorter points than our regular. ernment is in the process of moving to button-down collar, with little or Brasilia, hut ::ilthough President Quad The Twenties-Fads, flivvers, no roll. Striped English broad flappers. Era of wonderful ros is al ready there, the Foreign Minis cloth in fine blue, tan or grey nonsense . . . Paris cafes jammed try has not yet followed, and the Amer stripes on white, $11.50; in long with Americans and Frenchmen ican Embassy remains in Rio. Mrs. enjoying that inspired mixture of staple white cotton oxford, $8 Cabot is looking ahead to shifting the Cointreau Liqueur, Cognac and lemon juice, whimsically tagged family's pos.e.sions to still another em £5T ABLISHED 1818 the Side Car. bassy building, and meanwhile the Am T h e Sixties-The Side Car bassador shuttles back and forth between rides again ... the wicked 20's the two capitals. Characteristically, he 34 6 MAD ISON AYE . COR . 44 ST •NE W YOR K 17, N:Y. back and famous Cordials "It BOSTON • P ITTSBURGH• CHICAGO are sees a bright side to all the travelling. SAN PRANCISCO • LOS ANGE LBS by Cointreau are the rage at takes time, of course," he said recently, 1 fashionable gatherings. 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