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Desire & Accomplishment. Necessarily, many of John Foster Dulles' achievements start from plans, decisions and achievements of the Truman Administration. Had there been no Berlin airlift, the U.S. would not now be in a position to capitalize upon East German unrest. Had there been no Marshall Plan, EDC would not even be a dream. But Dulles has not merely kept U.S. power in position to contain the enemy. Unlike Dean Acheson, he has also sought every opportunity to use that power actively against the Communists. Even in matters where Dulles and Acheson were in total agreement as to objectives, there...
...charged," said Dulles, "that unrest only exists among [the satellites] as it is artificially stimulated from without. That is true only in the sense that faith is a contagious thing which penetrates even curtains of iron...
...Says an old union song, called Which Side Are You On?, written in the hard-shooting days of Harlan's labor unrest: They say in Harlan County, There are no neutrals there; You'll either be a union man, Or a thug for J. H. Blair...
...cold war is no longer a shoring of fixed positions; it has become a fluid diplomatic war of maneuver. Armistice in Korea had loosened the unanimity of purpose that the fighting there imposed: new decisions are needed in Asia. In Europe, Stalin's death and the evident unrest of the satellites had brought relaxation in the West; old cries no longer persuaded, old decisions no longer held...
...from the U.S., along with $39 billion of aid. The exertion came from the best of European leaders, and both exhortation and exertion came from the emergency of the cold war. Not only the Soviet cooing, but sounds the Russians did not want heard-the clash of revolt and unrest-had destroyed the impulse of emergency...