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...U.S.S. Helena, bearing the next President and his advisers, coursed for Hawaii under a sunny tropical sky. The Pacific's mood was good for pleasant cruising, and the admiral's cabin an equally pleasant place for palaver and planning. No phones distracted, no callers importuned as the men who will lead the U.S. mulled things over in oceanic seclusion. ''We may never again have the opportunity to hold talks such as these aboard the ship," said the future Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. "They should pay dividends for many years...
...face to face, piling question on question, with the top U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force commanders in the Pacific, with Korea's doughty President Rhee, with European allies, U.S. diplomats, young front-line officers and G.I.s. Then he went into retreat with his staff on the U.S.S. Helena in mid-Pacific to translate a feeling for the situation into a course of action...
While the Helena steamed toward Pearl Harbor, the U.S. began to sense the real effects of Eisenhower's trip. By plane he dispatched his new Defense Secretary Charles Wilson and J.C.S. Chairman Omar Bradley to Pearl Harbor to preside over a series of conferences on the military aspects of the situation. By plane and helicopter he brought his new Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and his close White House advisers to join him aboard the cruiser for high-policy discussions. By the time the two task forces joined in Hawaii, they would be able to match and mesh...
...kept his feelings to himself as he flew toward Guam. At Guam, he, Wilson, Brownell and the correspondents left the planes and boarded the Navy's U.S.S. Helena, a heavy cruiser, for the trip back to Pearl Harbor. The Helena's wireless crackled, and when the cruiser hove to off Wake Island, a helicopter brought aboard Ike's Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, Interior Secretary Douglas McKay, General Lucius Clay, Budget Man Joe Dodge, Emmet Hughes, campaign speechwriter who is to be on Eisenhower's White House staff...
...Historical Society took title to a private collection of Russell paintings valued at $300,000. The estate of Rancher-Broker Malcolm Sutherland Mackay agreed to take $50,000 for the collection, after a drive was launched to keep it in the state. Its destination: the new Russell gallery in Helena's Veterans and Pioneer Memorial Building...