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Israel and the U.S. could talk. The U.N.'s own tireless Dag Hammarskjold said he had got Egypt to agree to let the U.N. deploy into the Gaza Strip. The President received a letter from Israel's Ben-Gurion that was considered "constructive," whereupon Israel's Ambassador to the U.S..Abba Eban, flew back from Israel. Dulles held an unusual Sunday conference at his home with congressional leaders, then a few hours later met with Eban. and a new round of diplomacy got under way. But should Israel remain recalcitrant, the President of the U.S. intended...
...diplomatic line against Communism. In 1953 Radford advised Eisenhower to revise Harry Truman's two-way U.S. blockade of the Formosa Strait. His points: Why guarantee the Chinese Reds against attack from the Chinese Nationalists on Formosa? Eisenhower weighed the risks, took the decision, forced Red China to deploy hundreds of thousands of defense troops along the South China coast. Two years later Radford and Dulles not only endorsed Ike's public promise-backed by congressional resolution-to defend Formosa by force, but wanted the U.S. to declare its specific intent to defend the offshore islands of Quemoy...
...Crimson showed its customary control of the backboards, as Coach Wilson often used both centers, Captain Ike Canty, 6-4, and sophomore Griff McClellan, 6-8, together, to deploy the maximum height available...
...duck the humiliation and inconvenience of arrest, Adhemar took to his (Beechcraft and flew off to Asunción, Paraguay, leaving his lawyers to seek a writ of habeas corpus from the federal supreme court and deploy themselves for an appeal. As a matter of course, Adhemar issued a manifesto before he took off. "My flag will not be lowered," it read. "Without hatred or rancor for those who attacked me so cruelly, I ask the people to wait quietly for better days. Justice is often tardy, but sure...
...attitude or preference." This did not presage any substantial split in the New York State vote for Harriman, whose coach, Tammany's Carmine De Sapio, will control the 1956 convention delegation. But Lehman's name did give the Stevensonites a beachhead in New York, where they could deploy diversionary forces with some nuisance value...