In a major diplomatic reshuffle last week, the U.S. tapped two top-ranking State Department officers to strengthen its hand in the troubled eastern Mediterranean, reassigned four ambassadors-in-being to make room for the shifts. The changes:
Athens. Replacing Cavendish Cannon, named first U.S. ambassador to Morocco (TIME, July 23): George Venable Allen, 52, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern, South Asian and African Affairs. Troubleshooter Allen, onetime North Carolina schoolteacher and newspaper reporter (Asheville Times), longtime (26 years) Foreign Service officer, has had delicate assignments beforeĀas ambassador in Iran (1946-48) when the West successfully pressed the Soviets to withdraw from...
