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...Ordered Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to fly to the London disarmament talks. White House officials explained that Dulles' sudden trip was neither routine nor intended to embarrass U.S. Disarmament Negotiator Harold Stassen; instead, Dulles wants another face-to-face huddle with Western diplomats on key issues (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...neither the British nor the undauntably optimistic U.S. Negotiator Harold E. Stassen is ready to take the Russians at their harsh word. Do not the Russians often talk uncompromisingly just before giving in? It was decided to believe that the Russians are still seriously negotiating disarmament in London...
Unquenchable millions of Americans packed their children into sedans and station wagons and hit the road. For the moment, at least, summertime rites seemed more important than civil rights; personal clouds were fluffier than the faraway blossom of the latest atomic shot; disarmament was something for Harold Stassen to worry about; and international problems, from Arabs to Zhukov, all belonged...
...Congressman from 1931 to 1936, Republican Hollister had fought the New Deal, voted against Cordell Hull's Reciprocal Trade Act. He was a longstanding disciple of ex-President Herbert Hoover, and it was Hoover who urged him on the Eisenhower Administration as the successor to free-swinging Harold Stassen as director of the International Cooperation Administration. Such were the misgivings about John B. Hollister's intentions toward foreign aid that he snapped as he took office: "I certainly would not accept direction of any program with the idea of cutting its throat...
Such a two-step agreement, Harold Stassen stressed, would help reverse the tide of nuclear armament while still leaving the U.S. with "substantial nuclear-weapons capacity...