Word: truman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Diefenbaker is not a northern Harry Truman. He is a Canadian John Diefenbaker...
Under Harry Truman, foreign policy could be largely summed up in the single word "containment" (but in practice it did not quite manage to contain). Under Dwight Eisenhower, the word "liberation" was often used to label policy (but liberation was never really put into practice). A single word will no longer suffice, even as a slogan. The cold war no longer pervades the entire range of foreign policy. The Common Market, for example, is a slice of reality that U.S. foreign policy would have to deal with even if there were no cold war. With the cold...
...landed with some 100 men, captured a small town and then fled into the jungle when a British man-of-war arrived. Twelve days later, a bone-tired Walker was captured by a British naval officer, handed over to Honduran authorities, court-martialed and shot. "Had he succeeded," says Truman, somewhat unconvincingly, "he might have made a successful contribution to the organization of the Central American situation, into which he wanted to include Cuba-all of which might have influenced the shape of affairs we have with us today...
Creating NATO. The King that Truman was not referring to-Prime Minister Mackenzie King-called him back to Ottawa in 1946. By then, Pearson had ' mastered the technique of the new internationalism. He helped to draft the U.N. Charter as senior adviser to Can ada's delegation, and chaired the U.N. interim commission on food and agriculture. He was one of several men mentioned for the post of U.N. Secretary-General, "a job I would have liked." Though the Russians agreed that Pearson had the qualifications, they insisted on a European, settled on Trygve...
...Truman fired General Douglas MacArthur, Pearson made a prescient speech that was all but ignored: "The days of relatively easy and automatic political relations with our neighbor are, I think, over." He was talking as much to Canadians as Americans, and urging a mutual realization that with a next-door view, Canada could speak up to-and for-U.S. leadership more usefully if its voice was more than merely an echo...