FOREIGN RELATIONS: The Secretary's Defense

Forty-eight hours after Secretary of State John Foster Dulles landed in Washington after his vacation in the Bahamas, he sat down in the crowded Senate caucus room last week to face the storm over U.S. foreign policy. In charge was Georgia's Walter George, who had called the unusual open session of the Foreign Relations Committee primarily to find out about the off-again, on-again Saudi Arabian tank shipment. But it was obvious from one look at the squall line of Democratic liberals (Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, Alabama's John Sparkman, Arkansas' Bill Fulbright) at the end...

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