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Even in such a relatively benign matter as the release of eleven U.S. flyers shot down over China during the Korean War, John Foster Dulles first urged Hammarskjöld to intervene, then refused to allow their families to travel to Peking at Chou En-lai's behest. As...
All week long the flight announcer at Dulles International Airport outside of Washington followed his announcements with Hall to the Redskins!" In Miami, a radio station offered literally to bet the shirt off the back of anybody who wanted to take the Redskins. The switchboard was immediately flooded with thousands...
Franco's isolation ended after the Berlin blockade persuaded the U.S. that Spain was essential for the defense of Western Europe. In 1953 John Foster Dulles drew up a pact providing $85 million in economic aid and $141 million in military aid in exchange for U.S. air and naval...
AMERICAN LIFE IN THE fifties is remembered as dull in general, the Eisenhower administration's programs are recalled as even duller, and the nation's foreign policy can be briefly summarized as Dulles. Insofar as it deals with public life, George Kennan's second volume of memoirs does not appear...
"We act as though John Foster Dulles were still signing us up to clean up the world," he said.