Word: dulleses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TAIPEI, Formosa--Secretary of State Dulles will fly to Formosa Tuesday for talks with President Chiang Kai-shek.
The Nationalists, who issued the invitation, regard Dulles' trip as notice to Red China that there is no split in U.S.-Nationalist policy for defense in the Formosa area.
U.S. Ambassador to Taipei Everett Drumright seemed equally nonplused. Drumright reported Formosa's mood to Washington in such terms that Dulles, promptly, reassuringly, sent word to Chiang that U.S. policy had not changed.
But none other than President Eisenhower, at his own press conference, repeated Dulles' key criticism of Chiang's Quemoy buildup. Said Ike: "I believe, as a soldier, that was not a good thing to do, to have all those troops there." Ike's strongest press-conference statement...
Goaded by protests from abroad and a telegram from Secretary of State Dulles, Alabama's Governor James E. Folsom called to his office Negro Yardman Jimmie Wilson, 55, condemned to die by an all-white jury for robbing a white widow of $1.95 (TIME, Sept. 1), commuted his death...