Word: dulleses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 10--President Eisenhower predicted today that East-West negotiations on Germany will move ahead on schedule despite Secretary of State John Foster Dulles' new illness.
Eisenhower made his comments at a news conference at about the time that Dulles entered the Army's Walter Reed Hospital for a few days' rest prior to a hernia operation. Eisenhower spoke of Dulles, who is 70, as "the most valuable man in foreign affairs I have ever known...
Dulles said his duties in the meantime could be handled by under-secretary Christian Herter or under-secretary C. Douglas Dillon.
Dulles, who will be 71 on Feb. 25, insisted he would be back. He has displayed remarkable recuperative powers in the past--notably after his November 1956 operation for removal of a cancerous portion of his lower intestine.
Immediately there was speculation as to whether Dulles would return to his post as top ranking cabinet officer and foreign policy administrator.