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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the President: ¶ Held private talks at the White House with the Geneva conference's Big Four foreign ministers-U.S.'s Christian Herter. U.K.'s Selwyn Lloyd, France's Maurice Couve de Murville. Russia's Andrei Gromyko-who were in Washington to attend the funeral of John Foster Dulles. In a pointed warning to Gromyko, Ike told the Big Four that he hoped for enough "measure of success" at Geneva to make a Russia-coveted summit conference "desirable and useful...
...receive $100,000 and, at his mother's death, half her estate. Daughter Lillias Dulles Hinshaw, wife of a Manhattan publicist and a graduate of Union Theological Seminary, will receive the other half of Janet Dulles' estate, also gets $10,000 outright, plus forgiveness of a mortgage held by her father. Dulles' three sisters are each to get $10,000; William C. Pierce and Henry N. Ess III, his law partners in the Manhattan firm of Sullivan & Cromwell, will get $25,000 each. To his second son, Avery Dulles, went only $5,000, "not because...
What happened was a breakdown in the German command. Rommel, believing the weather too foul for an invasion, was away in Germany on DDay. The 21st Panzer Division, instead of counterattacking, was fed into a piecemeal defense of Caen. The 12th SS Panzer and the Panzer Lehr Divisions were held in the rear from 0400 to 1600 by command from Hitler himself. Smothered by Allied air attack, they did not get into action until D-plus-one, D-plus-two and D-plus-three...
There was deadly fighting yet to come and stirring history yet to be made. Montgomery drew the German armored strength onto the Second British Army and First Canadian Army at Caen, while the First U.S. Army broke out at St.-LÓ. Hitler and Rommel held back the German 15th Army near Calais, waiting for a second invasion that never came. George Patton, with his ivory-handled pistols, led the Third U.S. Army from Avranches to Le Mans to Orleans to Verdun to Metz in the most spectacular armored advance of the war. There was the unforgettable moment when Paris...
...London and set up a government in exile. Instead he surrendered to the Nazis and, while his nation was still occupied by Germans, married pretty Liliane Baels, the commoner daughter of a Belgian politician. At war's end Leopold moved on from Germany to Switzerland while liberated Belgium held a plebiscite to determine whether or not he should return home. Leopold's supporters narrowly carried the day, but so many riots greeted the King's arrival in Brussels that within a year Leopold surrendered the crown...