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As a citizen of West Germany, one gets more and more the impression that since John Foster Dulles died, nobody among the Western Allies is really able to resist the Russian threat.
The Changes. The "immorality" of the intervention found its most eloquent voice before the President during a meeting in the State Department on April 4, only 13 days before the date set for the invasion. The occasion was Bissell's final review of the operation, and practically everybody connected...
Victory's Spoil. Another growing interest of Dillon's was politics. "I imagine he was bored as hell with banking," says a friend. A lifelong Republican, Dillon worked with John Foster Dulles on the 1948 presidential campaign of New York's Tom Dewey; a year later he...
Unifying a Tangle. In 1957 Dillon was called home to take over the post of Deputy Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (later upgraded to Under Secretary), and put to unifying the U.S.'s well-meaning but tangled foreign aid problems. Secretary of State Dulles relied heavily on...
In 1950, Truman assigned Smith to another tour of duty-to clean up the Central Intelligence Agency, then under a cloud because of inept intelligence in the Korean war. Smith swept house ruthlessly (in his first month as CIA chief, he fired 600 employees). Three years later, when Dwight Eisenhower...