Word: fostering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Home from his trip to the SEATO Conference in Manila, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles was feeling gloomy. In Manila he had been dismayed to see how successful the Russians were in getting their summit-meeting propaganda across to Asians. In Washington he found U.S. newspaper front pages giving solemn treatment to the old Russian proposals, which, in effect, were aimed at undermining the strong points of the free world. Dulles decided that it was high time to put on the record some reasons why the U.S. is dead set against going to a summit meeting on Russian terms...
When John Foster Dulles' plane rolled up onto the ramp at Manila's International Airport, a strong wind sent a gust of oil flying from the inboard port engine. It spattered across the welcoming committee of U.S. Admiral Felix Stump, in natty whites, Ambassador Charles ("Chip") Bohlen, in a white sharkskin suit, a dozen newsmen. Said a bystander: "They suddenly looked like they'd gotten measles...
Djakarta, the Dutch were goaded into the negotiations that ended in a free Indonesia. Though few Indonesians realize it-and fewer still feel any appreciation-Secretary of State John Foster Dulles was speaking the simple truth when he declared that the Indonesian Republic "came into being in large part as a result of the interest of the United States that a republic should be founded...
...cannot indulge in the slogans or the ringing declarations that are possible to those who can demand what is desirable only because they are not charged with doing what is possible. That possibility was best formulated more than a year and a half ago by John Foster Dulles: "I believe that the role of the U.S. is to try to see that that [anticolonial] process moves forward in a constructive, evolutionary way, and does not either come to a halt or take a violent revolutionary turn ... I suspect that the U.S. will find that its role . . . will...
...last week, "have been a bit difficult about summit talks and what we call taking the peace initiative." With even fewer inhibitions, Aneurin Bevan (the likeliest candidate for Foreign Secretary, should Labor come to power) named the name of Britain's favorite scapegoat, accused Secretary of State John Foster Dulles of spurning an important Soviet "concession" when he rejected the booby-trapped Russian proposal for a foreign ministers' conference to establish a summit meeting agenda...