Editing Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (section)

==Ambassador to the United Nations (1953–1960)==
Lodge was named [[United States Ambassadors to the United Nations|U.S. ambassador]] to the [[United Nations]] by President Eisenhower in February 1953, with his office elevated to Cabinet-level rank. In contrast to [[Henry Cabot Lodge|his grandfather]] (who had been a principal opponent of the UN's predecessor, the [[League of Nations]]), Lodge was supportive of the UN as an institution for promoting peace. As he famously said about it, "This organization is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isn't created to take you to heaven."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bartleby.com/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070208193018/http://bartleby.com/63/11/1111.html|title=Homework Help and Textbook Solutions &#124; bartleby|archive-date=February 8, 2007|website=www.bartleby.com}}</ref> Since then, no one has even approached his record of seven and a half years as ambassador to the UN. During his time as UN Ambassador, Lodge supported the [[Cold War]] policies of the Eisenhower administration, and often engaged in debates with the UN representatives of the [[Soviet Union]]. Lodge often appeared on television "talking tough" to Soviet diplomats, and famously responded to the charge that the United States was responsible for aggression around the world by saying: "Membership in the United Nations gives every member the right to make a fool of himself, and that is the right of which the Soviet Union, in this case, has taken full advantage of."{{sfn|Richardson|1985|p=149-150}}

During the CIA-sponsored [[1954 Guatemalan coup d'état|overthrowing of the legitimate Guatemalan government]], when Britain and France became concerned about the US being involved in the aggression, Lodge (as US Ambassador to the United Nations) threatened to withdraw US support to Britain on Egypt and Cyprus, and to France on Tunisia and Morocco, unless they backed the US in their action.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Great Britain's Latin American Dilemma: The Foreign Office and the Overthrow of 'Communist' Guatemala, June 1954 |first=John W. |last=Young |journal=[[International History Review]] |volume=8 |issue=4 |year=1986 |pages=573–592 [p. 584] |doi=10.1080/07075332.1986.9640425 }}</ref> When the government was overthrown, the [[United Fruit Company]], of which Lodge was a significant stockholder,<ref name=Cohen186>{{cite book |last=Cohen |first=Rich |year=2012 |title=The Fish that Ate the Whale |url=https://archive.org/details/fishthatatewhale00cohe |url-access=registration |location=New York |publisher=Farrar, Straus & Giroux |page=[https://archive.org/details/fishthatatewhale00cohe/page/186 186]|isbn=978-0-374-29927-9 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Ayala |first=Cesar J |year=1999 |title=American Sugar Kingdom |url=https://archive.org/details/americansugarkin00ayal |url-access=registration |location=Chapel Hill, NC |publisher=[[University of North Carolina Press]] |isbn=978-0-8078-4788-6 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Keen |first1=Benjamin |author1-link=Benjamin Keen |last2=Haynes |first2=Keith |title=A History of Latin America |date=2013 |publisher=Wadsworth |location=Boston |page=444 |edition=9th}}</ref> re-established itself in Guatemala. The episodes tainted an otherwise distinguished career and painted Lodge as a face of US imperialism and exceptionalism.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Schlesinger|first1=Stephen|last2=Kinzer|first2=Stephen|title=Bitter Fruit: The Untold Story of the American Coup in Guatemala|year=1983|publisher=Doubleday & Company, Inc.|isbn=0-385-18354-2}}</ref>

In 1959, he escorted Soviet leader [[Nikita Khrushchev]] on a [[State visit by Nikita Khrushchev to the United States|highly publicized tour]] of the United States.{{sfn|Langguth|2000|p=217}} In 1960 he embarked on a reciprocal tour of the Soviet Union, including stops at the [[Bibi-Khanym Mosque]] in Samarkand.<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=February 22, 1960 |title=People |url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,939606,00.html |magazine=Time |volume=LXXV |issue=8}}</ref> 
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