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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Under Secretary Christian Herter, who is next in the line of State Department succession; anyone other than Herter would have to be named over the Acting Secretary's head. Herter's arthritis had been considered a strong factor against him, but he himself, when asked last week if he would accept the job, replied unhesitatingly, "If the President wanted me to, I would." Herter is highly respected by the Democratic majority in Congress and by liberal Republicans; conservatives fear that, in modern diplomatic parlance, he may be too "flexible" for the best U.S. interests...
...Economic Affairs C. Douglas Dillon, by all odds the Capitol Hill favorite, and probably (if agreement in principle is the prevailing factor) the likely choice of Foster Dulles himself. Dillon also rates high with Ike, but to name him would be to move him ostentatiously over Herter's head...
...proposal runs head on into accepted U.S. strategic doctrine as evolved by the Pentagon and defended by Defense Secretary McElroy before recent hearings of the Senate Preparedness Subcommittee (TIME, Feb. 9). The Administration's thesis: 1) the U.S. will get through the missile gap of the early 1960s with a "diversified" deterrent of manned thermonuclear bombers, Navy carriers and missile-firing nuclear submarines, plus a slowly growing, minimum force of Atlas and Titan ICBMs and the medium-range ballistic missile Thor; 2) the U.S. will close the gap around 1964 to the U.S.S.R.'s disadvantage when...
...daylight filters in through heavily barred fortress windows eight feet up. Aside from chapel, most prisons have no assembly halls, and today more than 6,000 men sleep three to a room in cells originally intended for solitary confinement. What Rab Butler is after is nothing less than a head-to-toe overhaul of the whole penal system...
...countryside the struggle between Communists and their opponents has not been resolved. Matters came to a head in the holy city of Najaf when party militants tried to turn a Soviet embassy official's courtesy call on a Shia Moslem leader into a Communist rally. Outraged, Moslem monks and youths, holding aloft copies of the Koran, fought a pitched battle against them. Scores were hurt...