FOREIGN RELATIONS: Three Shifts

In a long-expected move, the U.S. changed three diplomatic faces last week: ¶ Dr. Henry Grady, 69, U.S. Ambassador to Iran since June 1950, to retire. Grady went to Iran with the understanding that the State Department would give him $250 million to spend on economic aid—a technique of diplomacy Grady had mastered as Ambassador to Greece from 1948 to 1950. The promises finally dwindled to a proffered $25 million loan from the

Export-Import Bank. As the situation ran toward disaster, Grady lumbered persistently between the stiff-necked British and the sagging iron cot...