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...point, he had begun to lay out guidelines for a foreign policy that would not have to just react to the Russians. He sent three personal representatives fact-finding through Latin America. He sent Roving Ambassador Averell Harriman to Western Europe. Behind the scenes at the U.N., Adlai Stevenson moved to achieve greater rapport with responsible neutralists in the Afro-Asian bloc, by backing their resolutions on agenda issues instead of floating his own. The State Department talked of the new U.S. hope of helping to establish broad-based governments instead of strongmen in troubled areas. In a tough memorandum...
...Adlai Stevenson leaped immediately to Hammarskjold's defense. "The issue is simply this: Shall the United Nations survive? Shall the attempt to bring about peace by the concerted power of international understanding be discarded?'' As for Hammarskjold himself, "he needs no defense from me. His record is an open book . . . Let the Soviet government, if it wishes, pretend that he does not exist; it will find that he is far from a disembodied ghost, and it will find that peace-loving states will continue to support his patient search for the right road to security and peace...
...Chat on the Phone. With the Russians happily surveying their handiwork, Adlai Stevenson decided that still tougher words were needed if Moscow was to get the point. That afternoon he picked up a phone in a small office high in the U.N.'s glass and steel skyscraper, got through quickly to the White House. "Mr. President, it's time for you to get tough," said Stevenson to John F. Kennedy. "I recommend that at your news conference this evening, you tell the U.S. people and the world that we are ready to oppose any unilateral intervention...
...When Adlai Stevenson told Soviet Delegate Zorin about the plan, mentioning lightly that India and Nigeria-two conspicuous Afro-Asian names-might introduce it as a resolution, the Russian seemed startled: "What's that, what's that?" he barked at the interpreter. "Repeat that about India and Nigeria." He knew Moscow could not come out flatly against any scheme with wide support among the Asians and Africans...
Whatever the motives, Khrushchev's decision was like a bucket of cold water to the U.S.'s new leaders. For Adlai Stevenson, dedicated to lessening cold war tensions, and long contemptuous of the brusque counterblast as a technique of foreign policy, the week had come as a shock, stimulating the strongest kind of change in a man essentially unschooled in the closeup rough-and-tumble of Communist diplomacy. For the new President of the U.S., Russia's attitude was a rude reminder that although the Kremlin's tactics might change, its strategy most emphatically does...