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WHAT SHOULD be clearest of all is that Nixon's role as peacemaker in China exists only insofar as he can improve the U.S. economic and political position by playing on Sino-Soviet tensions and by deflating antiwar opposition at home. It is as tragic as it is ironic that...
The Nixon announcement once again dramatized the President's remarkable reliance on the diverse talents, energy and intellect of the brilliant, German-born former Harvard academic who is variously referred to by his governmental colleagues as "Henry the K," "Henry the Kiss," "Herr Doktor" and "the Metternich from Yonkers." Kissinger...
ON U.S. POLICY. There must be more realism in America regarding the realities of modern Asia. The turmoil that has engulfed South Asia is essentially a legacy of the big-power politics from the days of John Foster Dulles. We have never believed in balance-of-power politics; it is...
For Macmillan. the Egyptian President was a sort of South Shore Mussolini. "In dealing with him [Nasser], every display of timidity or weakness was seized upon and exploited. No action, however generous or fairminded, could reap any reward." As for Dulles, his "vanity more than equalled his talents." At first...
When the U.K. and France acted, Dulles erupted in '"hostility amounting almost to frenzy. There may have been other reasons. Perhaps the grim disease which was later to prove mortal had affected his psychological and intellectual equilibrium. Perhaps the spectre of Soviet Russia, now armed with the terrible nuclear...