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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...left the job of running the State Department to Acting Secretary Christian Herter-State made the same straightforward reply to Khrushchev that it would have made if Dulles had been at his desk. The U.S., said Press Officer Lincoln White, is still awaiting a "reasoned reply" to its note suggesting a foreign ministers' conference. And in a display of calm decision in action, Washington ordered a Navy picket boat off Newfoundland to board and search a Soviet trawler suspected of damaging U.S. transatlantic cables on the ocean floor (see Foreign Relations...
...Convention. Hours after the fourth cable break, Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh Burke called in half a dozen members of his staff and laid out the story. That morning, A.T. & T. had sent a plane over the trouble spot, dropped a note on the Novorossisk's deck: YOU HAVE CUT THE CABLE FOUR TIMES: STOP FISHING HERE AND GO SOUTH. The trawler moved a few miles. Burke's Judge Advocate General, Rear Admiral Chester Ward, then made a precedent-setting proposal: Send a Navy party aboard the Russian ship. Lawyer Ward cited an international covenant, signed by Czarist...
...forestall the expected cries from the Kremlin, the State Department at week's end sent a note to Moscow explaining the Navy's action, but not apologizing for it. As far as the U.S. was concerned, the incident was closed, but the Russians were on notice that the U.S. was keeping close watch on the Soviets' radar-packed trawlers and their omnipresent, camera-toting commissars...
...President, who continued to visit or pen a note to the hospital every couple of days, tried again to squelch the chatter about retiring Dulles. To G.O.P. congressional leaders, meeting at the White House, he passed the word in firm tones: "It is my responsibility." In press conference he praised Senators who (unlike Symington and Humphrey) "have expressed very prayerfully their great hope that he will be spared to go on with his work." By week's end Eisenhower's plain words had wiped out any excuses for confusion: Dulles would not retire unless he declared himself physically...
...term that ended Jan. 31. On that record, in last October's elections, he won a federal Deputy's seat and at the same time pushed his own candidate into Sao Paulo's governorship over stiff opposition. In the other October political development of note, the conservative National Democratic Union (U.D.N.) broke out of perpetual second place to back seven winning Governors, seven Senators and 74 Deputies with the highest vote in its history-some...