Word: interventionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Foster Dulles had in his hand a wire from U.S. Ambassador Robert McClintock in Beirut, advising that Lebanon's President Chamoun was urgently requesting U.S. troops. The Dulles brothers outlined the problem: unless the U.S. acted soon, Lebanon would collapse, and quickly. Jordan would follow soon. The U.S. was...
The Implication. Again, CIA's Allen Dulles and State's Foster Dulles briefed the meeting. If the U.S. does not act on Chamoun's request now, said the Secretary of State, "our prestige is gone; nobody will take our word again-ever. If we get there first...
One 40-below-zero Sunday 40-odd years ago, a Lutheran minister made his way across frozen snowdrifts in a horse and buggy to keep his preaching schedule at five different churches in and around Hawley, Minn. In the winter and spring of 1958, the minister's son, Presidential...
Nuri asSaid was the Arab world's sworn enemy of Nasser, who proclaimed Arab "positive neutrality" in the cold war. In many respects it was an unequal battle: Iraq has fewer than 6,000,000 people, Egypt more than 22 million. When Nasser seized power in neighboring Syria last...
Not until last spring, when Yoshimitsu was 21 and had reached a basketball coach's dream height of 7 ft. 2 in., did he get to a specialist (on a newsman's intervention). Said Dr. Kentaro Shimizu (5 ft. 4 in.), one of Tokyo's top brain...