Word: stassenism
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...weeks Western governments had known that the Russians were going to do it. Nikita Khrushchev had said as much to Harold Stassen, amidst the drinks and din of the party at Claridge's. But when the announcement came last week that the Soviet Union would reduce its armed forces by 1,200,000 men by May 1957, the response of the West was confused, contradictory and uncertain...
Soberest reaction came from Harold Stassen, who announced that a group of eight distinguished soldiers and experts has been called to assess the implications of the Russian gambit. The advisory group would also try to find an answer for Russia's expected demand that the West match their reductions. To that expected challenge, Dulles recently provided a short answer in the form of an anecdote: A fat man and a thin man agreed to go on a diet; the fat man got healthier, the thin man starved to death...
...State who is careless with words, but more importantly, as one who fails to see that this country must rethink the future of its foreign policy. There are men close to the Administration who do see the changes demanded: Milton Eisenhower, John Sherman Cooper, Paul Hoffman, or Harold Stassen. If John Foster Dulles is not replaced, however, his continuance in office is likely to loom as a major issue in the November election...
Until Khrushchev opened his mouth, the State Department had been feeling discreetly optimistic; all through the weary weeks Gromyko had asked pertinent questions and avoided flat answers. Perhaps the Russians really were seriously considering President Eisenhower's dramatic "open skies" proposal for mutual aerial reconnaissance. But to Stassen in the meeting room at Claridge's, Khrushchev said the whole U.S. plan was nothing but a trick to let U.S. planes photograph bomb targets in Russia. The U.S.S.R., he said, would never agree...
Gulping, "Quite a thorough discussion," Stassen rushed off from his two-hour chat to cable the worst to Washington. Next day Gromyko agreed to "consider" a few changes in the latest Russian plan, but Western diplomats interpreted this as a maneuver to fasten the propaganda blame on the U.S. should talks...