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...mayor of Marseille and the only declared challenger in France's next presidential election (which by the constitution must be held before the end of next year), Defferre visited the U.S. last week, called on President Johnson, gave other top Administration members (Rusk, McNamara) and the press a preview of what things will be like if ever he becomes President of France...
...Washington last week, efforts to apply this standard to diplomatic traffic violators ran into a solid roadblock. Foreign ambassadors had received a letter from Secretary of State Dean Rusk, notifying them that in the future diplomats would be expected to pay their traffic fines. In the first ten days, 205 cars with DPL plates were ticketed, and 46 fines were actually paid. But by then diplomatic indignation was running so high that the dean of the diplomatic corps, Nicaraguan Ambassador Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa, waited on Dean Rusk in person with a protest. Sheepishly the State Department backed up. The police...
Guest: Secretary of State Dean Rusk...
Lodge's dilemma is twofold. As ambassador, he does not formulate U.S. policy for that exasperating war; that is made by the President on the articulate advice of Secretary of State Rusk and of Defense Secretary McNamara, who has made three trips there in five months. But as a loyal ambassador, Lodge is immobilized. He cannot stand aside and comment on, much less criticize, Administration policy. And since Viet Nam promises to be a key election issue, Lodge, if he were to head the ticket, could hardly avoid an embarrassing crossfire of criticism himself...
This leads to some of "the worst plain and fancy lying Washington has ever seen," Stone continued. He illustrated this with several statements from leading "Cold Warriors." Secretary of State Dean Rusk once said that although Vietnam is progressing "it is not a full constitutional democracy." "If that isn't like Hans Christian Andersen!" Stone said...