Word: foreign
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Senator John F. Kennedy (D.--Mass.) will attack the lack of presidential leadership in the Administration's foreign policy this afternoon. He will speak in an address sponsored by the Young Democratic Club and the Law School Democratic Club in Sanders Theatre...
...review of the Lederer-Burdick book The Ugly American [Oct. 6] could come only from a complete misunderstanding of the purpose of the job the authors apparently set out to accomplish. The book intended to tell the people of this country something they need to understand about how our foreign affairs are conducted; it does that job in simple language and in easily understood terms. It is one of the most effective editorials I have ever read. And that's what it is, more than fiction, an editorial...
...rumbling that woke up the 1958 congressional election campaign last week was the sound of short-lived but sharp public argument between the President and Vice President of the U.S. The argument : Is the Administration's handling of foreign policy-and specifically the Quemoy-Matsu crisis-a proper topic for campaign debate? President Eisenhower, even though he agreed with G.O.P. leaders at the White House a fortnight before that foreign policy is one of the campaign's two top issues (the other: the economy), said flatly one day last week that "Foreign policy ought to be kept...
Vice President Nixon, out campaigning in San Francisco, flatly disagreed. His points: 1) U.S. foreign policy is a proper topic for U.S. debate, and 2) the Eisenhower-Dulles record is the G.O.P.'s great asset and great hope to turn back the Democratic tide. Nixon's argument: "A policy of firmness when dealing with the Communists is a peace policy. A policy of weakness is a war policy. This Administration has kept the peace without surrender of principle or territory...
Monday. Vice President Nixon, then in Chicago, cut back at the Democrats: "In a nutshell, the Acheson foreign policy resulted in war and the Eisenhower-Dulles policy resulted in peace. I challenge every Democratic candidate for the House and Senate to state unequivocally whether he favors a continuation of the Eisenhower foreign policy . . . military strength and diplomatic firmness . . . or a return to the Acheson policy . . . retreat and appeasement...