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...Delegate Christian A. Herter Jr. warned that North American food reserves available for emergencies are now down to 27 days of world consumption. "Meanwhile," said Herter, "200,000 more people are born each day and have to be fed." Clearly, a catastrophic famine could some day occur, and Herter's warnings appeared to be merely stating the obvious...
Cambridge Common Concerts on Sundays are starting up again, except they're not at Cambridge Common any more but at Herter Park on the Charles instead. They're usually very low-key and pleasant, with a band and some arts exhibits and crafts stands...
...Joseph in their syndicated newspaper column "Matter of Fact." As scions of an old Republican Connecticut family, the Alsop boys were in a unique position. While more mundane journalists attended press conferences, the Alsops lunched with fellow Grotonian Dean Acheson or shot quail with then Secretary of State Christian Herter. But, unlike Joe, Stewart had no arrogance, either socially or journalistically. Said one friend: "Joe's the kind of guy who can rise from an interview with a famous source and say, 'Sir, you have just wasted 30 minutes of my time.' Stew would never do that...
...demanded an apology from Eisenhower, as well as assurances that no more American reconnaissance planes would be permitted to fly over Soviet territory. My interpreter, Comrade [Viktor] Sukhodrev, told me he noticed, while reading the English translation of my statement, that Eisenhower turned to his Secretary of State, Christian Herter, and said, "Well, why not? Why don't we go ahead and make a statement of apology?" Herter said no-and he said it in such a way, with such a grimace on his face, that he left no room for argument on the issue...
...following instructions from Herter. To me, this incident meant that if Eisenhower had followed his own good instincts and used his own considerable intelligence, he would have done the right thing and given in to our demand; he knew it was possible for him to give us the apology and assurances we were asking for. But unfortunately, Eisenhower wasn't the one who determined foreign policy for the U.S. He let himself be pushed around by his Secretaries of State, first Dulles and now Herter...