Word: dulleses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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At first European blush, Gromyko's action seemed to be a match for Secretary Dulles' famed 1956 abrupt withdrawal of U.S. aid to finance Nasser's Aswan Dam. Actually, the Soviet switch was an entirely different matter. Where the U.S. had only withdrawn an offer (which had...
Now, as the government's victory became assured, Indonesian officials spoke enthusiastically about the "new understanding" between Djakarta and Washington. President Sukarno and his beautiful fourth wife, Hartini, made an unprecedented visit to Ambassador Jones's Dutch colonial residence for lunch. Sukarno jovially shook hands with the four...
Dulles Speaks. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles stood up for current U.S. policies. But he was not intransigent; he told his press conference that "our policy must constantly be adapted to new situations. But I do not believe there is anything basically different that we can do." Dulles pointed...
Said Dulles: "I would not say there is any general anti-American sentiment among the people of Venezuela." He ascribed the Caracas riot to the fact that "the police force maintained under Pedro Estrada [police chief under Perez Jimenez] had been virtually liquidated, and the subsitute police did not know...
In Washington's stately Metropolitan Club, Red Cross President Alfred Gruenther found former Democratic Secretary of State Dean Acheson in a jovial frame of mind. "Why don't you get over to the State Department and do something about all the trouble?" asked Acheson. Half-flattered, Gruenther answered...