Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...entrepreneurs have carried their country to the greatest prosperity in its history, partly by extending its economic influence into areas that generations of German military strategists coveted but could never manage to capture. For a battle report on one of West Germany's outstanding current trade offensives, see FOREIGN NEWS, West Germany Invades the Mideast...
...with threats of war, or Communist perfidy or international politicking, but with the fact that one man-U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles-lay ill. "Wise counsel," "singleminded strength," "indispensable man" -the tributes buzzed in dozens of languages and dialects from Tripoli to West Berlin. The British Foreign Office, which had despised him for Suez, was "extraordinarily sorry." The French Foreign Office, which had blamed him for North Africa, now regretted "the greatest possible loss for the West." The Foreign Office of West Germany, which Dulles had upheld through freedom to prosperity, worried that "a spoke had been...
...York's Browning School. At Harvard he concentrated on fine arts, graduated ('15) cum laude, then enrolled concurrently at Columbia University's School of Architecture and New York's School of Fine and Applied Art. A Harvard classmate talked him into taking a minor Foreign Service job with the U.S. embassy in Berlin, and World War I turned the diplomatic pastime into a passion that never dwindled. After his elder brother Everit was killed in France with the A.E.F., Chris Herter resolved to make the achievement of peace his lifetime's mission...
...magazine of opinion, the Independent, once graced by Henry Ward Beecher. Active as a Republican, he was elected to the Massachusetts legislature in 1930, became its speaker in 1939, and in 1942 was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. Named chairman of a Select House Committee on Foreign Aid, he led his committee abroad on a survey trip, laid much of the groundwork for the Marshall Plan legislation. So strict were Herter's rules that once, when the committee was traveling abroad, a sign appeared in the Queen Mary's lecture room: "Here sat the Committee...
...Herter worked as a member of a team drafting foreign-policy speeches for U.S. Presidential Candidate Thomas E. Dewey. Teammate: Doug Dillon. Team coach: John Foster Dulles. Herter met Dwight Eisenhower in Paris in 1951, instantly joined the ranks of Republicans urging Ike to run for the presidency, helped as a campaign adviser...