Word: dulleses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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A tiny red rosebud tucked into his lapel, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, down for seven days with an intestinal inflammation (see MEDICINE), left Walter Reed hospital and drove to the White House to confer with President Eisenhower about Berlin. From that conference came perhaps the hardest U.S. talk...
"A discouraging aspect of the international scene," said Dulles in a 400-word statement approved by the President, "is the disregard by the Soviet rulers of their pledged word . . . The Soviet rulers, in relation to Berlin, seek to repudiate a whole series of agreements. They seem to feel at liberty...
Dulles' stiff statement came in a week of generally stiffening attitudes toward Berlin. Khrushchev began it with a brazen threat that any Western attempt to break through to West Berlin by force would bring nuclear war (see FOREIGN NEWS). In his press conference President Eisenhower promised: "We stand firm...
It was in that same spirit in the week of stiffened attitudes that Secretary Dulles left the White House, drove to the MATS Terminal at the Washington National Airport, flew off to Paris. There he, British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville, and West German...
¶ Visited John Foster Dulles at Walter Reed Hospital, also dropped by to see his ileitis surgeon. Major General Leonard Heaton, who was abed with an ulcer, and Lieut. General Floyd Parks, retired commander of the Second Army, suffering a bone disease.