updated Sat. October 5, 2024
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Mosaic
April 15, 2018
“We should abandon our present defensive attitude and take the offensive in a confident and courageous manner,” Loy Henderson, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and African Affairs, wrote to Undersecretary of State Robert Lovett on April 22: We must persuade the more moderate Jews in thisÃâà...
Kashmir Watch
April 5, 2018
Ironically, Sheikh Abdullah, the first prime minister of Kashmir, was arbitrarily removed from power and imprisoned on August 9, 1953, after he indicated to US diplomat Loy Henderson his desire to see Kashmir as an independent country. In the years between 1953 and 1974, India hoisted client regimes inÃâà...
Mosaic
April 1, 2018
Ben-Gurion hoped that the partition map would be revised by Israeli victories; Loy Henderson and others hoped it would be redrawn by Israeli defeats. It was Ben-Gurion who would be vindicated. But on May 14 the United States hadn't recognized Israel's borders, either. It simply “recognize[d] theÃâà...
Modern Diplomacy
February 25, 2018
After World War II the culture that would define the State Department's entire Middle East outlook was developed almost single-handedly by Loy Henderson, director of the Office of Near Eastern, African and South Asian Affairs. Henderson filled the Office with specialists known as “Arabists” because of theirÃâà...
London Review of Books
October 25, 2017
Americans who had dealt with him, chief among them Loy Henderson, the US ambassador, found him erratic and eccentric, not to say downright weird. No one questioned his credentials as an Iranian patriot, but he seemed to the Americans incapable of running a shoeshine stand, much less presiding overÃâà...
LobeLog
July 4, 2017
First, it reveals how deeply the US—not just the CIA but also the US embassy headed by Ambassador Loy Henderson—was immersed in the nitty-gritty of internal day-to-day Iranian politics. Every so often Henderson would pronounce with a straight face that the US had the principled policy of neverÃâà...
Middle East Forum
December 31, 1999
Within the leadership of the United States, there was a fierce debate over policy towards the prospect of Jewish statehood in 1948. Fortunately for the Zionists, they had in Washington one powerful ally in their fight against the ploy to defer, if not to abort, the creation of a Jewish state: namely, President HarryÃâà...
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