Word: herter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With remarkable speed that was attributed, in part at least, to Chris Herter, the U.S., Britain, France and West Germany had reached fast agreement on a compromise package (see FOREIGN NEWS) to put up to U.S.S.R. Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in Geneva next week. Essentially, the plan was based on the U.S. intention to work toward free elections in Germany and to stay in Berlin. But it offered some new variations on those themes: 1) postponement of elections pending efforts of an East-West German commission to get together, 2) some sort of gradual inspected disarmament in Germany...
...Herter optimistic? a reporter asked. "Well," said he, "if I knew what frame of mind the other fellow was in I could answer that better." But the best new plus for the West at this early date was the frame of mind of new Secretary of State Herter. In Paris he showed a sort of genial, mellow, welcoming warmth along with known professional skill. "He knows his dossier," said a French diplomat...
...warmest moment Paris-born Chris Herter went to the musty Ecole Alsatienne on the Left Bank, where he was a student at age six, told the students of today in fluent French: "I see myself again as if it were yesterday, leaving for the Ecole . . . when I see little Americans going off to play baseball in the U.S. I cannot help thinking of the nice games of 'hunter's ball' that I played with my little playmates in the streets...
Diplomacy, as onetime Massachusetts Governor Herter well knew, was much more than mellow charm, mastery of detail. One major ingredient was getting the backing of the U.S.-and this week he would take to television to outline the Geneva prospects. Another was getting the measure of the opponent: next week's Geneva meeting could bring real progress, said he, "should the Soviet Union demonstrate an honest desire to negotiate...
...which were really intended for me or for the publications of which I am editor in chief. The attack of Senator Wayne Morse is perhaps the most vitriolic example of this." Mrs. Luce, he recalled, had offered to resign after TIME became a factor in the "Bolivian incident." Christian Herter, then Acting Secretary of State, refused the offer. "Almost unanimously the press of Brazil asserted that even if a few U.S. Senators were unable to do so, the Brazilian people were quite capable of distinguishing between Bolivia and Brazil, and between Clare Boothe Luce and Mr. Luce...