Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...case for a U.S. withdrawal from Viet Nam was argued before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week by the distinguished career diplomat who is generally regarded as the architect of America's postwar policy of containment against Communist aggression in Europe. George F. Kennan, who retired from the State Department in 1963 to return to his professorship at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, believes that resisting Communist aggression in Southeast Asia is "not our business." Excerpts...
Last week it was Fulbright's turn to shoot. Most top Administration officials were either in Honolulu or Saigon, and thus, in his committee's third week of sessions devoted primarily to the war, Fulbright had to make do with Retired General James Gavin and ex-Diplomat George Kennan, neither of whom has served in any official capacity for sev eral years. Both eagerly echoed Ful bright's apprehensions about Viet...
...Premier Aleksei Kosygin in New Delhi, and Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Ambassador at Large Averell Harriman conferred with South Vietnamese officials in Saigon. As the U.S. stretched to its fourth week the halt on bombings of North Viet Nam, the White House also revealed that a U.S. diplomat recently handed a North Vietnamese representative a direct communication, dealing with Washington's peace proposals, to Ho Chi Minh's government...
...peace talks in 1951 "was the turning point of the armistice conference. Thereafter, we lacked the essential military pressure to enforce a reasonable attitude"-and 70,000 American casualties were sustained under Communist attacks while the talks dragged on for two years. In Viet Nam, warns a top U.S. diplomat in the Far East, to ease up on the battlefield would be "to ensure a loss at the bargaining table." Furthermore, if talks broke down after a ceasefire, it would be difficult to regain the momentum to start the war up again. Some U.S. diplomats also insist that any talks...
...Pity the diplomat from a small Latin American nation in London, Paris, Bonn or Cairo. He has no real need to arrange treaties, snoop for political intelligence, or seek out the details of clandestine missile sites. There is really only the social life and perhaps Bingo once a week to take one's mind off the worst threat of all-job insecurity. With every attempted coup d'état back home comes a whole new wave of replacements. In Santo Domingo last week, Provisional President Héctor García-Godoy gave his nation's foreign...