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...American service wife in England with my husband, I feel that curtailing dependent travel abroad is deplorable. It carries the usual perfidious odor of Republican policy. During the past week Secretary of the Treasury Anderson and Under Secretary of State Dillon both stepped off the plane in Bonn with their wives...
...evening's third speaker, Robert R. Bowie, Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, said that despite the necessity for maintaining a negative policy of a military deterrent toward Russia and a positive policy of a search for a world order toward the new nations, there is still a cause for optimism...
...West Germany-some $600 million per year. The Germans refused, making some promising counteroffers (see FOREIGN NEWS), but under the rigid terms set by Anderson himself the mission had to be counted a failure-for the moment, at least. Though Anderson was accompanied by Under Secretary of State Douglas Dillon, State Department sources spread the word that both Foggy Bottom and the U.S. embassy in Bonn were "unhappy" about Anderson's methods...
Sweeping into Bonn last week accompanied by Under Secretary of State Douglas Dillon and a corps of 24 advisers, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Robert Anderson had only one thought in mind. Come hell or high water, he was determined to jar the West Germans into parting with enough Deutsche Mark to make a major dent in the increasing deficit (an estimated $4 billion for 1960) in the U.S.'s international balance of payments. Brushing aside the cautionary briefings of U.S. diplomats on the spot, Anderson confronted West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard with...
...ignored these counterproposals. After three days the meeting broke up with a communique implicitly conceding that the parties had been unable to reach any agreement. A clutch of critics promptly raised the cry that Anderson's "brutal" methods had foredoomed his mission to failure. Under Secretary of State Dillon was reportedly miffed, not at the purpose of the mission, but at its ultimatum-style presentation...