Word: washingtons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russians were quick to register an official protest. Claiming a "prescriptive right" to heights over 10,000 ft., they first warned darkly that "there may be incidents if the Americans fly above the altitude again without negotiation." In Washington, State Department Spokesman Lincoln White replied that the U.S. "has never accepted any altitude ceiling" in the air corridors. Next day the Russian "warning" was backed down to a simple statement that air collisions with Russian planes might result, added: "But that does not mean that any American aircraft would be molested or attacked." Finally Moscow got around to a diplomatic...
...Protests. Its point made, the U.S. did a backdown of a sort, too. The Pentagon plan was to establish the pattern with several flights above 10,000 ft. But Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd hove into his Washington meeting with Acting Secretary of State Christian Herter heatedly protesting that the flights might cause dangerous incidents in the touchy Berlin situation.* Although West Germany, France and Britain (but apparently not Lloyd) had been duly notified in advance of the 25,000-ft. flight, Herter promised to call off further flights until the two could sit down and talk...
...hardware did much less than the Italians last week to steady the West's sometimes teetering confidence in its security. "The American people," wrote Washington Columnist Roscoe Drummond, "would like nothing better than to stand up and salute a courageous, riskful and determined ally...
Midway in the NATO Council meeting in Washington, the delegates stopped to send a message of friendship and sympathy to the man who seemed to personify the spirit of the week's unified stand against Communist threats: Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. But Dulles needed sympathy less last week, perhaps, than at any time since he turned into Walter Reed Hospital with a recurrence of cancer. Just 840 miles southwest of Washington, he was basking in a hot sun on plush, lush Jupiter Island, Fla., a guest in the vacation home of his good friend Under Secretary...
...Ellery Queen. Breakfast was at 8 o'clock on the patio, with Dulles decked out in sports shirt, slacks and the hat. At 9:30 Army Captain Edward J. Kamin, an internal medicine specialist who had flown down in the presidential Columbine with Dulles and wife Janet from Washington, gave his patient a checkup. At 10:30 Dulles' capable personal assistant Joseph N. Greene called the State Department, got a 15-minute briefing, passed it along to his boss. "Well," said Dulles at one briefing's end, "let's go for a swim." After an hour...