what does "their orders were cut and recut" mean? Receptionists don't handle such matters. Neither do attaches. The legation was a small world, however, and the Halletts saw the embittered young man repeatedly as he returned for interviews with Ambassador Llewellyn E. Thompson and members of the U.S. consulate. The consuls gave him a lot of argument; it was their policy to woo would-be defectors, on the ground that American misfits were less dangerous back in the United States. In time the Commander and his wife lost track of the case. Their orders were cut and recut; like Llewellyn Thompson, who became Ambassador at Large in, October 1962, they were brought home. Hallett joined the President's official family at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and the young Halletts were enrolled in Stone Ridge parochial school with the children of the Robert F. Kennedys and the Sargent Shrivers.