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Kelen's eye was so sure that he often picked men out of a crowd before history did. In 1921, from a swarm of boisterous brown-shirted men in Munich, he sketched one whose face was all fascinating conflict. "Contrasts of weakness and strength were dramatic," Kelen wrote. "The...
AT 10:42 a.m., Peking time, Wednesday, July 21, 1954, the war in Indo-China came to an end. The result had been a foregone conclusion since the ignominious French defeat by the Communist Viet Minh at Dienbienphu two months earlier. Even before that, diplomats from nine nations, halfway round...
In January 1955, the U.S., at Diem's request, took over the primary responsibility for the training of the Vietnamese army as part of Dulles' effort under the SEATO treaty to curb Communist subversion in Southeast Asia. Though the U.S. poured in lavish economic aid, the total U.S...
When the United Airlines jet landed at Washington Airport last week, General Chiang Ching-kuo walked unnoticed past the waiting reception committee of U.S. officials and Chinese diplomats. It was not until moments later that they spotted him, a chunky man in a nondescript business suit, patiently examining the modernistic...
∙NOVEMBER 1955-In the "spirit of Geneva," Secretary of State John Foster Dulles proposes a limit on nuclear tests. Russia refuses.