Word: jointly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cooler-Eyed Scrutiny. Next afternoon, while Dulles, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Nathan Twining and other top officials were meeting with the President in an overall review of the Middle East situation, Press Secretary James Hagerty hurried into Ike's office with the news, just off the White House Teletype machines, that Khrushchev had accepted the idea of a summit-level Security Council meeting. India's Prime Minister Nehru should take part, said Khrushchev, and so should "the Arab countries concerned." As the place and time, Khrushchev suggested New York City five days thence. "The threat to world...
...Doctrine. The U.S. offered to go to the aid of any Middle Eastern nation-at that nation's request-to help it beat out attack or subversion by Communist or other outside powers. In historic testimony before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, the then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Arthur Radford. spelled out the U.S. purpose in Mahan-type precision...
Defense Reorganization. Running a rough congressional equivalent of a four-minute mile, a joint conference took just 27 minutes to smooth over differences between the Senate and House versions (TIME, July 28). Without further debate, both houses then okayed the bill and sent it to the White House. Said the President: "Except in relatively minor respects, the bill adequately meets every recommendation I submitted to the Congress on this subject...
...major achievement of the new bill is that it notably streamlines the Defense Secretary's operational command over the armed services, acting through the Joint Chiefs of Staff. For its part, Congress keeps the power to challenge, within 30 days, presidential orders transferring functions from one service to another in peacetime, also keeps open the right of service chiefs to appeal directly to Congress...
Cashing In. Britain's "Yes-at the U.N." reply to Khrushchev was different only in emphasis from the joint line Dulles and Lloyd had earlier agreed upon: the British accented the mutual willingness to talk; the U.S. emphasized the qualifications. Britain's answer, phrased with the terse and straightforward authority of Macmillan's personal voice, overnight united all British parties behind the government and gave it such a popular boost that some gloating Tories began talking of a snap national election to cash in ("We are riding the crest of the wave"). But Macmillan, who can resist...