Word: dulleses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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For months Dwight Eisenhower had worked out details of the U.S. position on Germany and the Berlin crisis with John Foster Dulles and his new Secretary of State, Christian Herter. Last week, while Herter carried out the plans at the foreign ministers' meeting in Geneva (see FOREIGN NEWS), the...
The death of former Secretary of State John Foster Dulles signals the end of an era in American foreign policy. While his influence on international affairs was not as lengthy as that of a Roosevelt or Churchill, the mark of his personality is stamped on the five-year period from...
Perhaps the State Department was too much "under the Secretary's hat," perhaps we will not mourn the absence of "brinkmanship" and "massive retaliation." Nonetheless, Mr. Dulles' forceful leadership and unyielding moral strength are an inheritance future statesmen can be proud of.
Before boarding his plane next day, Herter conferred with President Eisenhower, then paid a brief visit to ailing John Foster Dulles at Walter Reed Army Hospital. As Herter left the hospital suite, Dulles called out a farewell that voiced a general sentiment: "Good luck, Chris!"
To the Farm. Next morning he had a long soak in a hot tub, did not leave his suite until noon. Then Eisenhower and Churchill drove out through the blazing red azaleas of the National Arboretum to Walter Reed Army Hospital to visit former Army Chief of Staff George Catlett...