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...East crossroads, John Foster Dulles got down from an Air Force Constellation at Washington airport one evening last week, the first U.S. Secretary of State ever to have visited the vast, strategic region between the Aegean and the Ganges. Dulles and his party, including Mutual Security Director Harold E. Stassen, had bridged an arduous 20,000 miles in 20 days, listened and talked to the rulers of twelve countries inhabited by nearly half the people of the non-Communist world...
...program and, in the process, dashed hopes for a balanced budget: "I am distressed that we cannot balance the budget this year . . . the risks that would involve in our security would simply be too great . . ." Defense Secretary Charles Wilson, JCS Chairman Omar Bradley and MSA Director Harold Stassen echoed the Administration argument...
Never before in U.S. history had a Secretary of State visited, the Middle East. This week John Foster Dulles, accompanied by Harold Stassen, began a 20-day flying, fact-finding tour of the area. Dulles emphasized as he left the U.S.: "I shall bring with me no specific plans or programs, nor do I intend to ask the governments I visit for any decisions. I shall listen intently...
...point by shedding the bags under her eyes when she learns the meaning of love. Duvivier makes the whole thing pretty intense, with the actors expressing utter banalities with deadly seriousness. When the embittered hero, for example, declares: "I wanted to be President!" he sounds as determined as Harold Stassen...
Happy & Not Unhappy. That left the hand-holding to be asked about. Reporters trooped into President Eisenhower's press conference to fire question after question on Dulles' failure to stand behind Stassen. The President was calm. He didn't think that McCarthy was really trying to take over the executive's responsibility for negotiating international agreements. How could McCarthy or anyone negotiate if he had nothing to commit? He didn't think that McCarthy's act, even if it were an error, was serious enough to undermine the State Department's efforts. Perhaps...