Word: resignation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...difficult to say much more about the appointment of Christian Herter as Secretary of State than that it will be good to have a full-time, full-powered Secretary again. Much as one may sympathize with Mr. Dulles' personal misfortune, his decision to resign was a welcome one. For a foreign ministry--especially one so dependent on a single man as the State Department was under Dulles--cannot go on for long without a responsible leader. The lower echelons of State, whose policy-making role has been so limited in recent years, are unprepared to carry on with just...
AUGUSTA, Ga., April 15--Cancer forced John Foster Dulles to resign today as Secretary of State...
Most administration leaders were gloomy about the prospects that Dulles could win his fight. They expected he would resign shortly, perhaps within a comparatively few days...
...George Aiken (R-Vt.) said that unless Dulles is able to resume full-time work by the foreign ministers' meeting in Geneva, May 11, "I would expect he would resign...
...both Catholic or both Protestant; a Catholic Adenauer will have to appoint a Protestant Chancellor. By deciding to move to the Presidency this summer, Adenauer has limited his party to Protestant choices for Chancellor; he is now better able to control his succession than if he should have to resign as Chancellor when old age inevitably overtakes him. A Protestant Chancellor may also remove what some Germans have regarded as an unhealthy Catholic bias in the party...