Word: dulleses
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Hughes stayed with the Eisenhower team through late 1954, returned to Time, Inc., for the years 1954-5, and only rejoined the team briefly for the second campaign. Thus he was not an active participant during the years of the real ordeals--1954, which "began with Dulles' proclamation of the...
Part of the reason for the massive failure, of course, lies in the kind of men Eisenhower chose for his agents. Not until Hughes' book have the pettiness and vulgarity which distinguished the Eisenhower team--present company excepted--been so unambiguously depicted and decried. Cabinet meetings (which Hughes describes from...
Vodka & Mr. Dulles. It used to be said that when New Delhi wanted to talk to Washington, the call went first to Ottawa. As an interlocutor, Pearson attained a rare influence for Canada; Senator John F. Kennedy wrote that the Canadian Foreign Service for its size was "probably unequaled by...
After sitting on the three-man U.N. committee that negotiated the Korean ceasefire, Pearson in 1952 was elected U.N. Assembly President. For his unruffled performance. Pearson was nominated by Denmark, with Britain and France, to succeed Lie as Secretary-General, once again was vetoed by the Russians. The job went...
When Friends Fell Out. Pearson's most anxious diplomatic hours came in November 1956, after Israel, Britain and France invaded Nasser's Egypt. The crisis split Canada, which had always loyally supported Britain in time of war, but now found itself ranged alongside the U.S. and most of...