Word: fostering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Foster Dulles had in his hand a wire from U.S. Ambassador Robert McClintock in Beirut, advising that Lebanon's President Chamoun was urgently requesting U.S. troops. The Dulles brothers outlined the problem: unless the U.S. acted soon, Lebanon would collapse, and quickly. Jordan would follow soon. The U.S. was morally bound to go to the aid of Lebanon, and there was just the faintest chance that a quick movement of troops to Lebanon might bolster whatever resistance there might still be in Iraq. The President's advisers agreed that U.S. intervention would surely reap hot Russian and Nasserian...
Inga Swenson is a charming adolescent Perdita, who has the loveliest speech about flowers in the English tongue. Richard Easton and Will Geer are appealing as her princely suitor and her foster-father shepherd...
...United States must begin a crusade to save the free world, William C. Foster, former Deputy Secretary of Defense, asserted dramatically at the opening public forum Monday night. His speech was entitled "Balance in Our Concept of National Security...
...Foster charged that, despite the evidence of Soviet strength, "there is a growing complacency not yet dispelled by our national leaders." The U. S. government must "rise to our dangers and our opportunities," he said...
...cooperation. The British listened with what diplomats call sympathy (concealing their private misgivings) to De Gaulle's insistence that France has a "vocation" to become a nuclear power. They tried to suggest, from their own experience, how costly nuclear weaponry could get (De Gaulle, in talks with John Foster Dulles later in the week, counted on the U.S. to help out with know-how and materials). Apparently British "sympathy" was mistaken for support. MACMILLAN: YES TO FRENCH ABOMB, crowed the Paris-Journal, to the discomfiture of the British delegation...