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Your April 27 article on Mr. Herter was a genuine tribute, as well it should be. My hope is that Mr. Herter's appointment reflects the U.S.'s maturing judgment in the type of individuals it selects to conduct and carry out governmental affairs. It will be to our credit to have more appointees with some of Mr. Herter's attributes such as "undeviating interest in the arts" and "unflagging courtesy and willingness to listen...
...appointment of Mr. Herter as Secretary of State is the logical path that we might expect our present, incompetent Administration to follow. The profound irony behind such a move is that the Administration now in office has precisely defined its and Mr. Herter's condition: sick...
...listened carefully but without comment to Herter's presentation of the plan, which includes at least half a dozen modifications of long-held Western views on Berlin, German unification, and European security...
GENEVA, May 12--U.S. Secretary of State Christian A. Herter laid on the line today the West's sweeping package plan for uniting Berlin, merging East and West Germany, and starting global disarmament. He urged the Soviet Union to accept it as the basis for a European settlement...
Stance & Circumstances. The new man in these deliberations, U.S. Secretary of State Christian Herter (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), won admiration from his colleagues in gaining assent to this largely U.S. package. He placed himself well over toward the British position in favor of serious negotiations with the Russians. But he also made a significant concession to the French. He had wanted to make public the Western proposal May 10, the day before the meeting with the Russians began. But the French argued that since the Russians started all the fuss by threatening Berlin, they should be required to submit a plan...