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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700450093-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 5, 2005
• Sequence Number: 93
• Publication Date: February 16, 1959
• Content Type: NSPR

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John Foster Dulles, who has stalked the
sp,r,ier of international Communism from
o_, end of the world to the other, is now
in a personal combat with the
L' . , t lca!er, cancer.
.'.s ir:s world-wide fight has brought wise
ca .rrs,~l to less experienced leaders and
n::w hope and determination to people in
marry nations, so his personal fight against
disease and for health is inspiring millions
v :',h his courage.
The two struggles will, thanks to Mr.
Dulles' chief, President Eisenhower, go on
together. The secretary will remain avail-
able for advice the while he rests and fol-
lows the prescribed therapy.
? * *
So well have we come to know and to
respect Mr. Dulles from the millions of
words that have come from his pen, and
from his many goings and comings, that
there is a catching at the throat, a deep
sense of personal shock at the news of his
illness.
The man's self-less devotion to dtita' ir:
his service for the security and surviv i of
the Republic and its allies has brought him
close to the affections of many.
For almost all who think seriously of the
r?,en ice to freedom from international
Communism he has been a part of the life
c?f their waking hours for years.
his peculiar mannerism of parting the
lips and, as it were, forming silent words
before he answers press-conference ques-
tions has long been familiar; and for as long
have we marveled at his well-phrased and
wise replies to the inquiring newsmen. The
English was usually flawless as he parried
question with answer.
* *
If our sense of shock is so acute, we can
imagine how Ike feels as his friend lies con-
fined to his hospital bed.
Ike's is the responsibility for shaping
foreign policy, and he has leaned heavily
upon Mr. Dulles, for whose wisdom and
grasp of foreign affairs the president has
the highest regard.
As we pray for Mr. Dulles' recovery we
should not forget Ike in his new hour of
personal trial.
Unfortunately the prima donnas dancing
and prattling about in the foreign relations
ti. Jd cannot be forgotten. They will be
silenced perhaps for a day or two- but they
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will probably resume their trouble-making
shortly:
Lyndon Johnson, who seems to think that
he should change the Constitut.un by fiat
and place responsibility for foreign rela-
tions upon Congress (meaning, upon the
shoulders of M-..inhnson himself, mostly).
Hubert I-Tumnhrr?a whose. presidential
ambitions bulp,t. r,t;c a policemen's revolver
beneath his ce,,t. and whose marathon in-
terview with Khrushchev he has tried to
use as a mighty springboard to fame.
Mike Mansfield, with his lone-wolf pro-
posals on how to have East and West Ger-
many negotiate the U. S. and her allies out
of West Berlin.
Stuart Symington, who professes to have
his own intelligence service which he
claims is far superior to the CIA.
The list is long, and it includes the news-
men and commentators who have shot their
barbs at the secretary and coined their
subtle innueaadoes about his travels and his
policies.
Mr. Dulles has had to bear with them all,
the while he carried on a burden such as
few men have ever carried.
May his illness prompt the faithful who
admire hip AoN otrnn and high talent to sur-
round hint V i!.h such support that his ene-
mies can riot lair rc,o if to annoy him or to
disiiirb h; r ,ire to think and to rea-
son ot, the
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