Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Important Risk. Dead set on the other side of the argument-and against any "liberalized" China policy-are the President's closest foreign-policy advisers, led by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Walter Robertson, Dulles' Assistant Secretary for Far Eastern Affairs. Together with Defense Secretary Wilson and all the Joint Chiefs of Staff, they argue vehemently for the current official position that the U.S. (as Robertson crisply puts it) must take no action "which would create international prestige for the [Peking] regime...
...military courts under the status-of-forces agreement. The Japanese held that because Girard did not fire during official exercise, he was subject to Japanese justice. Last week, in a joint statement issued at the Pentagon, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson finally ruled that Girard's specific action "was not authorized," was subject to the primary jurisdiction of Japan...
Soon letters were pouring into newspapers, heavily backing an American trial for Girard. Congressmen, from left to right, were hammering at the Dulles-Wilson ruling; e.g., Ohio's Senator John Bricker accused the Government of "sacrificing an American soldier to appease Japanese public opinion." Girard's defense attorney, who was recommended for the job by the Hearst New York Journal-American, filed suit in U.S. District Court in Washington to have Girard brought back to the U.S., announced plans to subpoena Dulles, Wilson and Army Secretary Wilber Brucker. The counterblasts were soon rolling in from all over Asia...
...with rare courage he reversed the decision of senior Navy brass, recommended the promotion of passed-over Captain Hyman G. Rickover, able "father" of the atomic submarine, to rear admiral. He succeeded Roger M. Kyes as Deputy Defense Secretary in May 1954. Sitting in for Defense Secretary Charles Erwin Wilson at National Security Council sessions, he impressed Dwight Eisenhower with his penetrating, cool-headed summary of the case for defending the Nationalist-held islands of Quemoy and Matsu during the Formosa Strait crisis in 1954-55. Over Ike's protests, Anderson left Washington in 1955 to take over...
Occupational Hazards. As Heald has already learned, running a foundation is full of pitfalls. No one could possibly quarrel with the foundation's recent grant of $25 million to the National Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Program to draw more talent into college teaching by helping promising graduate students. On the other hand, the $500,000 grant to set up an exchange program for U.S. and Polish artists and intellectuals could well have stirred up a flurry of protests. But politics and public opinion aside, philanthropy faces nettlesome occupational hazards...