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When a retired statesman writes the story of his career, he almost invariably portrays a situation in which the author is seen as the hero and the other actors have only supporting roles. But last week, as excerpts from his memoirs began to appear in the London Times, it was...
The Unmailed Letter. Eden begins by coldly surveying Dulles' self-avowed 1954 "brinkmanship" during the last days of the Indo-China war. Dulles first raised the possibility of U.S. military intervention soon after the siege of Dienbienphu began. He was pessimistic about the French, says Eden, and saw them...
Eden describes a meeting in Paris shortly before the fall of Dienbienphu, when Dulles handed a letter offering U.S. armed aid in Indo-China to French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault. Dulles asked Bidault to read it and decide whether he wanted it sent to him officially. (The point: if Bidault...
Adenauer . . . Ben-Gurion . . . Nasser ... John Foster Dulles. And the Shah of Iran . . . Admiral Rickover . . . Ernest Hemingway.
Four years ago, when John Foster Dulles abruptly withdrew a U.S. tender of a $56 million Aswan Dam loan, it looked as if the dam might never be built. But the Russians came through with a promise of about $10 million. That offer has survived Nasser's later disenchantment...