Word: nixons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stand on the Middle East made the U.S. fit and qualified to condemn Soviet barbarity in Hungary. Such condemnation was the U.S.'s sole weapon, "since the alternative was action on our part which might initiate the third and ultimate world war." The Freedom Fighters of Budapest, said Nixon, won a great victory in the battle for men's minds. "The lesson is etched in the mind and seared in the souls of all mankind. Can it be seriously suggested that any nation in the world today would trust the butchers of Budapest...
...next logical phase of U.S. foreign policy. From the first day of Suez, President Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles had insisted that the U.S. difference with its allies over Suez should not obscure the long-term values and meanings of the Atlantic alliance.* Nixon urged his listeners to give the British and French "eternal credit" for eventu ally accepting the U.N. resolutions on the cease-fire and withdrawal of troops. He urged less attention to fault-finding and more to seeking a long-range settlement in the Middle East...
...Nixon then ventured into a politically delicate area by speaking of "the financial plight" of Britain in a way that seemed to suggest big new U.S. economic aid. Said the Vice President: "I believe it is in our interest as well as theirs to assist them in this hour of difficulty...
...Generous Aid." Beyond advocating help for the Atlantic alliance, Nixon foreshadowed a new U.S. emphasis on much broader foreign economic aid. Of the nations of the Middle East, he said: "There must be generous aid in solving their very real economic problems so that their peoples may rise from the depths of poverty and disease. In the past these nations of the Middle East used their meager resources to build up military strength. Now we have the unique opportunity to show them what can be done by using their resources to build up the health and welfare of their peoples...
Obviously such a broad new venture would not be without domestic U.S. opponents-whom Nixon, perhaps, was better placed than Eisenhower or Dulles to convince and win over. Even Treasury Secretary George Magoffin Humphrey took to a podium in the Waldorf-Astoria before flying to Paris for the NATO meeting to assert that some estimates of Western Europe's need for new U.S. aid had been "greatly exaggerated. The fact is that in all probability existing institutions will be able to provide most of the assistance that may be needed." But the fact also was that any aid program...