Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...caucus room to hear him, the Secretary of State appeared fit and fresh in his pin-stripe grey suit and gay red necktie. Once more he was on hand to explain the President's request for authorization to 1) use U.S. forces, if requested, to defend any Middle Eastern nation against Communism, and 2) spend, without restriction, $200 million of already appropriated funds for Middle Eastern economic aid. Late the next afternoon, as he wearily pulled on his overcoat after questioning by the combined Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees, John Foster Dulles was pale and drawn...
...never get far from the Iron Cur tain, it seems," said Bell. "I covered it in Korea, from Greece, Turkey and Iran, and from Eastern Europe from 1954 until last Christmas Eve. Now I'm back to the bamboo variety...
...Weaken." Arkansas' Democrat William Fulbright, onetime President of the University of Arkansas, who wears his Rhodes scholarship on his sleeve, waited patiently and purposefully for his turn with Dulles. When it came, he pushed his glasses down his nose and began to read a prepared statement. U.S. Middle Eastern policy under Dulles, he said, has "grievously wounded" Britain and France. Before Congress approves the Eisenhower resolutions, Fulbright continued, Dulles should be called upon to account for why these "responsible and friendly governments" had felt it necessary to conceal from the U.S. their plans for armed intervention in the Suez...
...showed up in the same neck of the woods-and led Dulles into one of the most unfortunate remarks of the hearings. Morse, wringing his hands lest "American boys might have to go over there alone," suggested that Britain and France join the U.S. in backing the Eisenhower Middle Eastern resolution. Dulles replied softly: "I hope, before you commit yourself to that proposition, you will give careful consideration to the reception the British and French could get in the Middle East." Then, half-joking and still referring to the low esteem in which the Middle East holds Great Britain...
...moving swiftly-and with point. The House Foreign Affairs Committee approved the Eisenhower resolution virtually intact by a 24-to-2 vote, moved it toward the House floor, where overwhelming approval is expected. But the committee report also noted that the resolution failed to meet such "basic"' Middle Eastern problems as Arab-Israeli relations, the Suez Canal dilemma, and the handling of Arab refugees. The House, said the committee, should get on with the business of adopting the Eisenhower resolution-and then should receive from the Administration "positive and comprehensive measures for dealing with the fundamental problems...