Word: herter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Herter Speaks to Allies...
...Look. While Ike travels, Secretary of State Christian Herter will wrap up U.S. position-papers in advance of the Western summit, but will join the presidential party aboard the cruiser. As his top diplomatic adviser Ike will take to Asia the State Department's retiring Troubleshooter Bob Murphy, who will delay his retirement (and starting his new jobs as a director of Corning Glass Works and president of Corning Glass Works International) to make the trip. New look on the diplomatic team: Daughter-in-Law Barbara Eisenhower, who will accompany Ike's aide and son, Major John...
Inevitably last week there was speculation that five-star Ambassador Murphy was resigning out of policy differences with Secretary of State Christian Herter. Not so, said Murphy with characteristically blunt diplomacy. "Why," said he, "this speculation is bunk. I even heard on some radio program that the reason that I was quitting was so I could be out of the State Department if the Democrats came in next year and this would make me available to be appointed Secretary of State. How crazy...
...Higgins Land to the Chileans, and San Martin Land to the Argentines. More important yet was the fact that for once the U.S. and Russia (neither of which recognizes any Antarctic territorial claims) were in thorough agreement; genially, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily Kuznetsov echoed Secretary of State Herter's recommendation that "Antarctica should not become an object of political conflict and should be open for the conduct of scientific investigations." At week's end it seemed a foregone conclusion that the twelve nations meeting in Washington would wind up by signing a treaty embodying the two "high...
...four years, U.S. and Filipino diplomats have been jousting over the vexed question of U.S. military bases in the Philippines. Last week, on the eve of his recall to Washington (to become an adviser to Secretary of State Herter...