Word: herter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good part of his nine-hour train trip north to Paris, Ike was closeted with Secretary of State Christian Herter, who had come down from Paris to meet him and brief him on NATO matters. At Paris, about 500 people jostled into the Lyon Station at 10:30 p.m. to watch as Eisenhower and President de Gaulle shook hands. It was a businesslike welcome, with little pomp, and after they chatted for a few moments the two men parted for the night. It was late, and ahead for Ike were three hard days of talks with other Western leaders, brief...
...abstention in the U.N. Assembly vote on Algeria, which France did not take as indifferently as the U.S. expected (TIME, Dec. 21) and with Eisenhower's joint declaration with Tunisian President Bourguiba that the continued fighting in Algeria was "a cause of grave concern." When Secretary of State Herter, arriving in Paris, opened a courtesy call on French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville with the remark that "I have come to speak to you about this week's events," Couve put on the chill act: "I prefer myself to talk about last week and those events that...
...starchily as the French behaved, Herter and his colleagues were in no mood to give ground on what they thought mattered. When French Defense Minister Pierre Guillaumat protested the publication-not the validity-of Twining's charges, U.S. Defense Secretary Thomas Gates replied: "My government endorses the military substance of the speech made by General Twining ..." And in his major speech to the NATO Council proposing a ten-year program for the alliance, Herter came close to threats. Said he: NATO must "maintain the principle of an integrated defense system . . . The commitment of large U.S. forces to NATO...
...this attitude fits in with his having taken what, in contrast to the Herter-Kennan-Pearson end of the spectrum, might be called a right-wing or Dulles-type position on summitry and other cold-war relaxation measures. Despite his acute political trendex-consciousness, Rockefeller need therefore not be accused of political opportunism. His views seem consistent, and in this your correspondent is quite correct. Rockefeller simply represents a right-wing alternative to middle-of-the-roaders like President Eisenhower and the new Nixon, at least on fundamental issues like loyalty control and East-west negotiations. Neither family background...
...committee vote calling on Communist North Korea to allow free elections for unifying the country-cause Communist hands to be raised in righteous protest against "violation of the Camp David spirit." Recently the Soviet press has been unexpectedly publishing the full text of speeches by Dean Acheson and Christian Herter. Finally it drew its conclusion: neither of these men is in tune with Camp David...