Word: rusk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paris to attend a meeting of the South-East Asia Treaty Organization, Secretary of State Dean Rusk chatted "cordially" with France's President for about 35 minutes, counting time out for translation. Britain's Foreign Secretary Lord Home and France's Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville, who have been snubbing one another ever since Britain was excluded from the Common Market last January, also exchanged civilities. What's more, at an Elysée Palace reception for SEATO delegates from eight countries, le grand Charles affably declared: "Security means cooperation...
During his five months in China in 1960, Snow talked at length with Mao Tse Tung and Chou En Lai: an opportunity no American diplomat has enjoyed. Yet When Snow returned to the United States, Dean Rusk (who was then about to assume his position of Secretary of State) only managed to find about ten minutes to talk with Snow. His questions reportedly did not reveal a complete grasp of conditions inside China. "Does China have much iron?" Rusk is said to have asked. Why yes, the largest vein in the world," Snow gratefully replied...
...Snow could have said a lot more to Rusk. As an old China hand who remembered famines that reduced millions of human beings to eating bark, selling their children, or just dying in the streets, Snow found China's material progress since 1949 pretty incredible. Although he was in China during a year of severe drought in some areas and floods in others, he found that an equitable rationing system introduced by the government had virtually eliminated the old problem of starvation. (Actually industrial workers, pregnant women, and children get special dispensation.) Snow personally investigated almost every province in which...
Alphand said that the recent talks between U.S. Secretary of State Rusk and French Foreign Minister Couve de Murville "do not signify a change in the French mood." Both Parliament and the people are "strongly behind President de Gaulle's ambition that France have its own means to defend itself," he stated...
...minute De Gaulle-Rusk meeting was described as relaxed and friendly. Their wide-ranging discussions, informants said, also touched on such questions as Cuba and the NATO nuclear force, now attracting some French interest...