Word: herter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...number of show-me skeptics, foreign and domestic, are worried that the thaw may put the U.S. on even thinner ice in a cold war that has yet to end. Last week three experienced diplomatic weathermen contributed to a growing debate on the subject. Secretary of State Christian A. Herter pledged the Eisenhower Administration to careful negotiation and something called "co-survival." President Truman's Secretary of State, Dean Acheson, warned against the perils of negotiation. And Mr. Cold War himself, Nikita Khrushchev, proclaimed that he is certainly a man of peace, turning out guided missiles by the hundreds...
...Herter. The real meaning of the series of high-level meetings, said Herter in a speech to the National Foreign Trade Council in Manhattan, is that a new process of communication between East and West may be developing. "I say 'may' because only time can tell whether we shall have learned to talk somewhat less at cross purposes than in the past, and with better understanding of opposing points of view." Khrushchev, said Herter, had said there was a need for "a common language despite the ideological conflict to which he staunchly adheres. Many will find this hard...
Battle of Formosa. The Orient seemed promising. Porter, an outspoken advocate of recognition of Red China, decided to go to Red Peking. When the State Department repeatedly refused to validate his passport. Porter sued Secretary of State Christian Herter, charging violation of congressional rights-but prudently trimmed his travel plans to include only Formosa, Japan and Okinawa. His official mission was to interview civilian employees abroad and report back to the Post Office and Civil Service Committee on the state of their morale, but Porter clearly had bigger things in mind. Just before his take-off early this month...
...Pravda has come to print an occasional dissident word. Last week it not only published the text of U.S. Secretary of State Christian Herter's speech before the National Foreign Trade Council but reprinted from U.S. News & World Report an interview with Iowa Corn Farmer Roswell Garst, who played host to Khrushchev during the Soviet Chairman's U.S. visit last September. Garst's frank talk about Russian agriculture (still primitive by U.S. standards) and Khrushchev (rough, tough and cruel, but "not all black") got by untouched...
...position on the quarrel, U.S. Secretary of State Christian Herter surprised reporters in Washington last week by remarking that the U.S. had not "taken any sides at all" in the Sino-Indian border dispute and, when pressed, conceded that "the U.S. has no view whatsoever as to the rightness or wrongness of this issue." After the conference, when prodded by his aides, Herter hastily issued a statement that his press conference remarks "related only to the legalities of the rival claims." But, whatever the legalities, he said, the Chinese Reds were "wholly in the wrong" in using force to assert...