Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Almost drowned out by the international cacophony over the summit conference last week was the news that fast-moving U.S. diplomats had racked up a substantial performance around the world by deeds rather than words. After tireless efforts of State Department Troubleshooter Robert Murphy to reconcile the supposedly irreconcilable, Lebanon quietly held a peaceful parliamentary election of a new President (see FOREIGN NEWS), and the U.S. promised to pull its troops out of Lebanon if the government so requested. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles began the week in London at a conference of remaining Baghdad Pact members, and after...
Into the Cabinet. President-elect Eisenhower, bent on upgrading the U.N. in U.S. foreign policy and strengthening the U.S. voice in the U.N., looked around for an international-minded Republican who could do what a U.S. chief delegate to the U.N. has to do: think fast, speak fluently, argue persuasively, and be charming. Cabot Lodge seemed just the man. To (give Lodge extra prestige and a voice in the policymaking, Ike made him a "personal member" of his Cabinet (Lodge's predecessor, Vermont's ex-Senator Warren Austin, had no Cabinet status). As a favor to Lodge...
...Washington is likely to stir reactions or encounter obstacles that the State Department had failed to take into account. Usually Lodge wins his point. Sometimes the "instructions". he gets from Washington are verbatim playbacks of what he wrote out himself. And there are also times when "things happen too fast to rely on specific instructions...
...said, "The nations here do not have to have any fear whatsoever that the U.S., even at great risk, would not maintain the integrity of our friends," the Mideast diplomats were unappeased. Next day, passing up the buffet lunch, Dulles drafted a few sentences and cleared them in two fast telephone calls to President Eisenhower...
...some Wall Streeters, the rise was a little too fast for comfort; they argued that no earnings anywhere in sight can justify present stock prices. But with the end of the recession coinciding with a foreign crisis, a lot of investors apparently felt that means either " 1) a rising peacetime economy, or 2) business stimulated by war scares, both of which mean increased inflation...