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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 12, 1956 | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

...keep the journalistic or historical record straight on your Feb. 20 statement that the Chicago Tribune "has never based one of its own men in Moscow," these are the facts: In August 1921, while the Hoover-Litvinoff "treaty" was being concluded in Riga (which, incidentally, stipulated that American reporters were to be allowed in Soviet Russia), Floyd Gibbons, head of the Tribune foreign-news service, went to Moscow. He scooped the world on the Russian famine. Within a few weeks he assigned me as permanent Tribune correspondent in Moscow. I stayed in Russia about a year and a half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 5, 1956 | 3/5/1956 | See Source »

Presidential Concurrence. Dulles turned the first questions about the Saudi tanks over to Under Secretary Herbert Hoover Jr., who handled the case in the Secretary's absence. Hoover's answers were firm. He had made the decision to hold up the tanks, then had made the subsequent decision 43 hours later to let them go. Why? Because charges in the press and on the radio had created doubt and confusion, and he wanted the people of the U.S. to be sure that "all of these matters would be thoroughly investigated." Had he discussed the problem with President Eisenhower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The Secretary's Defense | 3/5/1956 | See Source »

After Assistant Secretary of State George Allen had heard out the complaints, Acting Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr. checked again with Ike at Thomasville. Then the U.S. executed a fast about-face. The U.S., said Hoover, would lift the arms embargo and let the tanks go through-on the theory that the tanks would not endanger the peace of the Middle East. "Utterly beyond our comprehension," Israel's embassy reiterated. The U.S. might fairly conclude of the week's display of off-again-on-again diplomacy that it was also utterly without forethought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Tanks for the Saudis | 2/27/1956 | See Source »

...states,* Gallup found that 56% like Ike. 40% are for Stevenson and 4% are undecided. Eisenhower's percentage was a big gain over his vote in 1952. It was also well above the biggest popular vote that a G.O.P. candidate for President ever got in the South: Herbert Hoover's 52% over Al Smith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Gains Below the Line | 2/27/1956 | See Source »

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