Word: fostering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...before him. Responding to an overnight message asking him to telephone Secretary of State Dulles at Walter Reed Hospital, Ike climbed the stairs to his vacation headquarters above the golf pro shop at Augusta, sadly ordered the call put through. When Dulles came on the line, the President asked: "Foster, how are you?" Secretary Dulles replied: "I'm not getting better enough, and not soon enough, Mr. President." Then he added: "I believe we ought to move now." Slowly Ike answered, "I agree...
...brought up in the belief," wrote John Foster Dulles to the President of the U.S. last week, "that this nation of ours was not merely a self-serving society but was founded with a mission to help build a world where liberty and justice would prevail." So saying, Dulles, gravely ill of cancer, resigned as Secretary of State. Replied Dwight Eisenhower: "You have set a record that stands clear and strong for all to see." Appointed to succeed Dulles in as critical time as ever faced a nation in a role of leadership: Christian Archibald Herter, 64, longtime student...
...free world's-best guidance to the new Secretary of State was the welling, heartfelt tribute that poured out to John Foster Dulles, 71, from around the non-Communist half of the world. Dulles had dedicated his diplomatic career-as Republican servant of the Truman Administration in drawing the Japanese peace treaty, as an architect of the United Nations, and as Dwight Eisenhower's Secretary of State for more than six years-to the concept that power must be wielded resolutely so that moral values of natural law and justice may take root worldwide...
...Communists to miscalculate the free world's resolution. He had no need to, and probably would not, follow the precise pattern of Dulles policies; but as long as there was a cold war to fight, he could take a guideline from the London Observer's appraisal of Foster Dulles: "We have come to appreciate how enormously important it is for the man leading the strongest nation in the world to understand the relationship between strength and morality. Without that, everything could come unstuck...
...ranking Cabinet officer turned away from the microphones at Augusta National Golf Course. With a wave, sport-jacketed Dwight Eisenhower strolled off, leaving Christian Archibald Herter, 64, to answer newsmen's questions. The "same team will carry on" at the State Department, he told them, and John Foster Dulles "will be available for consultation with the President, or myself, whenever he feels...