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...morning and all afternoon some of the biggest names of U.S. foreign policy slipped unobtrusively into the White House for top-secret meetings. Under Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr. was in and out of the President's office all day; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Arthur Radford hurried in through a side door, his aides carrying wooden easels and maps and charts covered with plastic blankets. On hand for two of the secret meetings was Central Intelligence Agency Director Allen Dulles, along with Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss. As the warm day's light...
From all visible signs it seemed that the Russians had understood what the U.S. meant by promising "to oppose" the Russian volunteers, a promise that Under Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr. reiterated before the U.N. General Assembly later in the week. But no one in Washington thought that this quiet victory settled anything permanently. For one thing, the Kremlin was throwing dust in all directions; e.g., at week's end, almost as if there had been no Budapest, no threat of desert war, the Russians proposed a new disarmament plan, which they couched in boasts that they could...
...Once in, Hoover found the path strewn with difficulty. An inordinate shyness, accentuated by his deafness, was mistaken for gruffness, an engineer's anxiety to be letter-perfect, for indecision. Twice while Dulles was absent, Hoover as Acting Secretary had to take responsibility for poor staff work that produced diplomatic boomerangs: 1) the U.S. snub in April 1955 of Communist China's offer to negotiate disagreements that were leading the two nations toward war; 2) the on-again, off-again shipment of 18 U.S. tanks to Saudi Arabia last winter in the midst of Israel's strongest...
Happy Prospect. Last week the days of doubt appeared behind him as the 53-year-old Acting Secretary went about his double duties. In whatever top decision he made, Hoover got adequate advice from two top sources. One: Dwight Eisenhower. The other: John Foster Dulles, perched in a hospital bed strewn with cables and communiqués, keeping in touch through two assistants and two State Department extension telephones...
Devoted to his chief and unimpressed by the limelight, Hoover at week's end could be cheered by reports that the Secretary was rapidly recovering, might be back at his Foggy Bottom desk sooner than expected...