Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the President wants Democrat Richards to take part in a bipartisan meeting on foreign aid at the White House. But beyond that was a factor that at once highlighted the success of the Richards tour and limited its future usefulness. A few days earlier, the U.S. Sixth Fleet, dispatched to the Eastern Mediterranean to "hold up the hand" of Jordan's King Hussein against his enemies, churned the waters from Syria to Egypt in a dramatic display of U.S. might. At the same time Jordan requested-and Washington immediately supplied-a $10 million grant to strengthen young King...
...Ambassador Richards read his comeback orders, Washington flashed a new order to the Sixth Fleet. From the Pentagon to Fleet Commander Charles Randall Brown went the word: Mission accomplished; withdraw to the Central Mediterranean. Within hours "Cat" Brown and some 30 of his warships-including the giant carrier Forrestal-had pivoted hard west and were headed for Italian waters, where they will join in NATO exercises this week...
...Washington the day before the Sixth Fleet sailed, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles conferred by telephone with the President. Then Press Secretary James Hagerty announced that "both the President and the Secretary of State regard the independence of Jordan as vital." The wording, Hagerty noted, echoed the Eisenhower Doctrine's declaration that the U.S. "regards as vital to the national interest and world peace the preservation of the independence and integrity of the nations of the Middle East...
...Sail When Ready." The Joint Chiefs of Staff needed no further notice to send the Sixth Fleet hurrying eastward from its peaceful anchorages in the Western Mediterranean. Admiral Arleigh ("31-Knot") Burke, Chief of Naval Operations, issued the curt order: "Sail when ready." The Sixth Fleet sailed under the straight-faced explanation that it was merely returning to its normal theater of operations...
...fleet's hurried move brought on a flurry of arguments about whether the Administration was or was not acting under the newborn Eisenhower Doctrine, which authorized the President to use military force to aid Middle East countries appealing for help against aggressors "controlled by international Communism." But Jordan had not been attacked, and Hussein had not asked for help (although he had clearly declared that his troubles were being compounded by international Communism). The mission of the Sixth Fleet, which started patrolling the Mediterranean ten years before the Eisenhower Doctrine was born, was not to apply the doctrine...