Word: dillons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Eisenhower commissions, and 2) a precis of the unfinished business left by the departing President? And, he added in his quietly persuasive way, how states manlike for the junior Senator from Ar kansas to propose the performance of such an unselfish service to someone in the Administration - perhaps Douglas Dillon, Under Secretary of State. Fulbright agreed to give the idea full consideration...
...tidy budget surplus. In Moscow, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev announced that the Red army will be cut by 1,200,000 men (wary Western diplomats listened hopefully, but wondered if it was not just another refrain from a familiar Russian lullaby). In Paris, Under Secretary of State Douglas Dillon exhorted 18 members of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation to join the U.S. and Canada in a gigantic economic pool to help solve mutual problems and share the heavy responsibility for aiding underprivileged nations...
Last week, in the chill marble halls of Paris' Hotel Majestic, a briefcase brigade of economic experts from 13 Western nations addressed themselves to these problems. At the suggestion of U.S. Under Secretary of State Douglas Dillon, they agreed to set up a temporary committee to think about increasing and coordinating foreign aid programs. For the long range, they decided "in principle" to establish a 20-nation Atlantic economic community consisting of the 18 members of the OEEC (the longstanding Organization for European Economic Cooperation, set up in Marshall Plan days), plus the U.S. and Canada. The details would...
...group were Secretary of State Christian Herter and Under Secretary C. Douglas Dillon; Defense Secretary Thomas Gates and General Nathan Twining, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Atomic Energy Commission Chairman John McCone; Presidential Assistants (for national security) Gordon Gray and (for science) George Kistiakowsky. They were in rare unanimity on a general proposition. They intended to put it to the President that 1) the U.S. ought to continue the 14-month-old talks with Britain and the U.S.S.R. at Geneva on how to inspect and control any permanent test ban; 2) the U.S. should not promise to extend...
...Subject: what to do about the impending division of Western Europe into two rival economic blocs. This was the topic that alarmed Macmillan. The British talk of building a bridge to draw together their Outer Seven and the bigger Common Market Six. U.S. Under Secretary of State C. Douglas Dillon returned from a European tour last month convinced that the U.S. would have to involve itself as a direct participant in consultation between the two developing trading groups, if only to protect its own trade interests. But Washington was not particularly interested in bridging or blending the two groups...