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...hand to meet Harold Macmillan's gleaming Comet 4 jet airliner at Washington's MATS Air Terminal were Vice President Richard Nixon and Acting Secretary of State Christian Herter (who sat waiting on a metal stool to ease the pain of his arthritis). They hustled the British party to the White House behind screaming sirens. Next morning Macmillan and President Eisenhower drove to Walter Reed Army Hospital, where Secretary of State John Foster Dulles had been pacing his sunroom floor awaiting their arrival...
WASHINGTON, March 16--Any slash in President Eisenhower's $3,930,000,000 foreign aid program would show "we are weakening in our determination" to oppose mounting Communist pressures, Acting Secretary of State Christian A. Herter said today...
...were not for this program," Herter told the House Foreign Affairs Committee, "we would be seeing large portions of the world in Communist hands as of this moment...
...Herter, standing in for the ailing Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, opened the administration's drive to head off fund-cutting proposals by critics of the aid program...
...reason for leaving the administration program intact, Herter said, is the five-year-old campaign by the Soviet Union and its Chinese Communist allies to outdo the United States in helping underdeveloped countries...