Word: dulleses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dulles made it clear that the U.S. was deeply concerned about Soviet saber-rattling. There had been a recurring Soviet threat to Turkey since 1945, he said, but present Russian belligerence might be "a smoke screen behind which something more serious might be taking place." Whatever the case, the U.S...
Replied Dulles: "Certainly if there is an attack on Turkey by the Soviet Union, it would not mean a purely defensive operation by the U.S., with the Soviet Union a privileged sanctuary from which to attack Turkey." Just how and where the U.S. might use its Mid-East power (see...
Was, then, the U.S. on the brink of war? asked a reporter. Dulles made no effort to pull back from this gibe at what his critics like to call his policy of brinkmanship. "If anybody studies history they will find that the world has been always on the brink of...
Bounce & Burble. Next morning President Eisenhower and a score of U.S. and British Commonwealth officials waited at Washington National Airport with thousands of well-wishers as the President's plane Columbine III softly landed. Stepping carefully down the ramp and into a long, slow handshake from the President of...
The U.S. left no doubt that it stood firm behind Turkey. Secretary of State Dulles warned that a Russian attack on Turkey would invite immediate U.S. retaliation. And, with President Eisenhower's hearty agreement, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan decided to fly to Washington this week for a conference...