Word: scratchpads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stride. When Dulles got to Paris for the council meeting last fortnight, he found that both Anthony Eden and Pierre Mendès-France had prepared strict plans calling for consultation by the allies before nuclear weapons could be used. After dinner with Eden, Dulles pulled out his omnipresent yellow scratchpad, scribbled out his own resolution. Next day both Eden and Mendès-France dropped their proposals, and the council adopted the Dulles plan within 30 minutes. It provided for consultation prior to use of nuclear weapons by NATO forces, but it did not set rigid rules or tie the hand...
Envelopes & Doodles. The formal discussions were held in the State Department's Map Room, where the Premier sat with a pile of red envelopes, containing briefing notes, in front of him on the table. Dulles sat opposite, with only a clean scratchpad at his place. Throughout the discussions Mendès listened with wrenlike intensity, speaking almost entirely in English (more than once he barked out a French phrase to Ambassador Henri Bonnet, who supplied the English for him). Dulles often doodled or whittled on a pencil as the conversations lengthened...
...views of the French Premier. He told Mendes that he would think the matter over. In pajamas that night at the embassy, John Foster Dulles, a man who likes to get his thoughts down in order, jotted down a synopsis of Mendes' frank talk on a yellow scratchpad, studied it, made up his mind, fell asleep...
Correspondents' Scratchpad (Sat. 6:15 p.m., CBS). New series on "events behind the news...