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THE SECRET SURRENDER by Allen Dulles. 268 pages. Harper & Row. $5.95.
Precisely at 2 o'clock on the afternoon of May 2, 1945, the men of 22 Nazi and six Italian Fascist divisions in northern Italy laid down their arms. The surprise mass surrender, which involved nearly 1,000,000 troops and led only days later to Germany's...
Dulles' narrative is straight out of the best spy fiction. In Switzerland in 1942 he established an OSS listening post that listened right into Nazi Germany itself; for example, he knew months in advance of the generals' plot against Hitler in July 1944.
Rusk's arguments, of course, were somewhat more sophisticated than those of John Foster Dulles, who opened each year's anti-admission campaign with a lecture on the unsavory credentials of the few willful men in Peking tyrannizing a nation of millions. Rusk pointed out that the Communist Chinese have...
Ten years ago last week, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal and set the stage for the bloody Suez crisis that rocked the world in November 1956. Thereupon, Israel invaded the bleak, sand-blown Sinai Peninsula, ostensibly to destroy guerrilla bases operating against her borders. Then...