Word: dulleses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In Washington, President Eisenhower, Secretary of State Dulles, visiting British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd conferred on the rocket-rattling letter. At conference's end, word leaked out that they had turned thumbs down on any immediate Geneva summit meeting but might be willing to talk summit again after the...
Crisp & Quick. Already programed for that morning was a 9:45 meeting of the National Security Council, which was scheduled to deal with civilian defense problems. Ike decided not to change the agenda but to cut the meeting short. At 10:30, during the meeting in the Cabinet room, an...
Foster Dulles had in his hand a wire from U.S. Ambassador Robert McClintock in Beirut, advising that Lebanon's President Chamoun was urgently requesting U.S. troops. The Dulles brothers outlined the problem: unless the U.S. acted soon, Lebanon would collapse, and quickly. Jordan would follow soon. The U.S. was...
The Immediacy. Nearly two hours later, the meeting broke up. Tentatively, the President had made a twofold decision: the U.S. would 1) send an armed vanguard to Lebanon, and 2) lay the problem before an emergency session of the U.N. Security Council. The President himself said he would notify Canada...
Ike & Dief. From the time the President and Mrs. Eisenhower, along with Secretary of State Dulles and Mrs. Dulles, alighted from the presidential plane Columbine III, the President and the Prime Minister lost little time getting down to the serious business that prompted the visit. In the pine-paneled study...