Word: herter
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Short hours after President Eisenhower nominated Christian Archibald Herter as his second Secretary of State, Chris Herter's old friend, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman J. William Fulbright, began canvassing fellow Senators to line up swift Senate confirmation for Herter to correct any impression that there is "some division of opinion." Fulbright's point: the President's preoccupation with the illness of John Foster Dulles and his three-day delay in naming Herter (TIME, April 27) had blown up a world williwaw of speculation that the President was less than enthusiastic about Herter's appointment...
...soon as the President sent Herter's name to the Senate, Fulbright was ready to deliver. Vote for confirmation: 17 to 0 in the Foreign Relations Committee, 93 to 0 on the Senate floor. Time of confirmation: 4 hours 13 minutes, in contrast to the usual seven-day minimum...
...Herter Flies to Paris...
PARIS, April 28--Christian A. Herter flew into Paris today to help tie up a Western package plan for solving the Berlin crisis and the problem of unification...
...Herter will begin formal talks with his French, British and West German counterparts tomorrow in the French Foreign Ministry. Diplomatic sources said the talks, scheduled to last three days, will be under three general headings: Berlin, German reunification, European security...