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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Joint Chiefs of Staff-Chairman Nathan Twining, the Navy's Arleigh Burke, the Air Force's Thomas Dresser White, the Army's Acting Chief Lyman Lemnitzer (his chief, Maxwell Taylor, was on the West Coast on an inspection trip), the Marine Corps' Randolph Pate. The word from the Pentagon duty officers: the government of Iraq had been overthrown. The anticipation-it was almost an assumption-of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: the pro-U.S. government of Lebanon would now request U.S. military protection, would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEBANON BUILDUP: Out of Briefcases & Red Folders, a Classic Show of Power & Speed | 7/28/1958 | See Source »

...Ready, Brother . . ." By 1p.m., the J.C.S. got word that Lebanon's anticipated request for U.S. military help was in. The Chiefs held a second meeting that lasted for one hour exactly, then headed back to their desks to alert their forces-all forces. The U.S. military establishment, worldwide, was put into a state of "improved readiness." Leaves were canceled. The Navy was put on a four-hour alert; i.e., all ships not in major repair were to be ready to sail on four hours' notice. The Air Force's Strategic Command needed no particular word. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEBANON BUILDUP: Out of Briefcases & Red Folders, a Classic Show of Power & Speed | 7/28/1958 | See Source »

...General Twining brought word to J.C.S. meeting No. 3 that the President's orders were to move into Lebanon, and to move immediately. Twining emphasized that the mission was not to fight Lebanon's rebels, nor to intervene in Iraq, but to secure the Lebanese government and its key centers in and around Beirut, e.g., Beirut International Airport. As Lebanon would be primarily a Navy show, at least at the outset, the J.C.S. executive agent was Admiral Arleigh ("31-Knot") Burke. At 6:23 p.m. the J.C.S. signaled Vice Admiral James Lemuel ("Lord Jim") Holloway Jr., commander...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEBANON BUILDUP: Out of Briefcases & Red Folders, a Classic Show of Power & Speed | 7/28/1958 | See Source »

...vanguard to Lebanon, and 2) lay the problem before an emergency session of the U.N. Security Council. The President himself said he would notify Canada's Prime Minister John Diefenbaker and Britain's Macmillan of the decision by telephone. Dulles agreed to have U.S. embassies pass the word to other NATO and Western powers (with some concern that the sievelike leaks among France's civil servants might somehow telegraph the U.S. punch too early). Ike turned to his legislative aide, Major General Wilton "Jerry" Persons, and said: "Jerry, how soon do you think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: An Act in Time | 7/28/1958 | See Source »

...Implication. Again, CIA's Allen Dulles and State's Foster Dulles briefed the meeting. If the U.S. does not act on Chamoun's request now, said the Secretary of State, "our prestige is gone; nobody will take our word again-ever. If we get there first, there might not be Communist intervention." If the U.S. refused to take a stand now, he added, the free world would stand to lose not only the Middle East and nearly three-fourths of the free world's oil reserve, but Africa and even non-Communist Asia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: An Act in Time | 7/28/1958 | See Source »

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