Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lives . . . The debate reached its argumentative climax when Foreign Relations Chairman Fulbright rose up to do battle on the point of morality. Dodd's claim that Berlin is a "moral issue," said Fulbright, "means, I take it, that political implications are secondary and that . . . evil is all that is involved. In that case I think there is no hope whatever for any kind of adjustment or compromise, and therefore we must reconcile ourselves to inevitable war ... I should like to proceed on the premise that it is possible to find some adjustment in time...
...Foreign Trade. "I believe that the reason we are having so much trouble competing with the other countries ... is that our costs are too high. We cannot continue to increase these costs and have the kind of foreign trade that will make our own country prosperous ... If we give way to the idea of just increasing tariffs along the line ... I just believe we are making the gravest mistake we could make...
...White House was, in fact, beginning to think about the contingency that he might find himself unfit. Gist of the thinking: Dulles would continue as the President's top adviser on foreign policy, and the President would choose a new Secretary from among Dulles' top lieutenants in the department: Acting Secretary Christian Herter, Deputy Under Secretary for Economic Affairs Douglas Dillon, or Deputy Under Secretary for Political Affairs Robert Murphy...
...account will we agree to discuss the reunification of Germany." Khrushchev trumpeted. "Let the Germans themselves sit at a round table and solve this problem." Scornfully, he pooh-poohed the Big Four Foreign Ministers' conference on Germany proposed by the West-Gromyko would be too busy. Added Khrushchev: "It is well known that when people want to shelve a problem, it is drowned in endless verbiage from which, as from a swampy marsh, there is no exit." If the West really wanted a solution, it would have to agree to a summit conference, whose subject matter would be limited...
...Khrushchev jaunted companionably through the pine woods in a troika, sharing a lap robe and chatting with apparent candor about the great issues of the cold war. Next night in the British embassy Khrushchev harked back to the Geneva Conference of 1955 (which Macmillan attended as Britain's Foreign Minister), warmly told the Prime Minister: "It was with your help that the Geneva spirit was created...