Title: The truth is our weapon : the rhetorical diplomacy of Dwight D. Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles /
Authors: Tudda, Chris, 1965-
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Eisenhower, Dwight D. Political and social views.; Dulles, John Foster, Political and social views.; Rhetoric Political aspects United States History; Cold War.; United States Foreign relations; United States Foreign relations Soviet Union.; Soviet Union Foreign relations United States.; United States Foreign relations Communist countries.; Communist countries Foreign relations United States.
Abstract: "President Dwight D. Eisenhower and his secretary of state, John Foster Dulles, deployed a tactic Chris Tudda calls "rhetorical diplomacy" - sounding a belligerent note of anti-Communism in speeches, addresses, press conferences, and private meetings with allies and with Moscow. Yet all the while, Tudda discloses, the two were confidentially committed to a contradictory course - the establishment of a strong system of collective security in Western Europe, peaceful accommodation of the Soviet Union, and the maintenance of a new, albeit divided Germany.".
Contents: "Ideas as a principal missile" -- "Our heads in the sands" -- The feebleness of alternatives -- Re-enacting the Story of Tantalus -- An avalanche which nothing will be able to stop.