Word: dulleses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The dispute between the nation's press and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles over his refusal to let American newsmen go to Red China flared up anew. Going beyond his original argument-an unconvincing one-that the U.S. would not be able to protect reporters behind the Bamboo...
"As you know, of course, the Chinese Communist government has for some time been trying to get reporters, preferably those it picked, to come into Communist China," Dulles told his press conference, "and it has repeatedly tried to use the illegal detention of Americans in Communist China as a means...
Separate Issue. Newsmen not only did not know about the Red Chinese maneuver, but neither, apparently, did President Eisenhower. "This is a new thought that has come in," said Ike next day at his press conference. Newsmen could squeeze no details out of the State Department; this increased their irritation...
What galled pressmen most, beyond their inability to go after the news in a vital part of the world, was the inference, however unintentional, to be drawn from Dulles' ban: a seeming fear that American reporters who went to China could be led astray. The New York Times, four...
With his new statement, some felt, Dulles had invited pressure from Americans who, though uninterested in the spat between Dulles and the press, think that a lifting of the ban is a cheap enough way of rescuing ten U.S. citizens from Red imprisonment. Put that way, the trade sounded fine...