...chances for peace, just as you have to take chances in war. Some say we were brought to the verge of war. The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. ..." Then he is quoted as saying that we went to the brink in Korea in 1953, in Indochina in 1954,...

...must take chances in war," Dulles insisted in a Life magazine interview early in 1956. "The ahility to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. 1f you cannot master it, you inevitably get into a war. 1f you try to run away from it, if you are...

...Defense [New York, 1961], 101). 14 Dulles observed: "The ability to get to the verge without getting into war is the necessary art. If you cannot master it,...you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost" (interview with James Shepley, Life Magazine, January 16, 1956). " Quoted...

...Race Let him who desires peace prepare for war. Vegedus (4th century AD) Roman military strategist The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. John Foster Dulles (1888-1959) American Republican politician If this phrase of the "balance of power"...

...do not feel, they call it being tactful. Cowardice would be a much better name. — Frank Medlicott The ability to get to the verge without getting into...you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost. — •/"''" Foster Dulles Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching...

...(b. 1 936), US physicist. Gettysburg Review (Summer 1989; repr. in Harper's. New York, Jan. 1990). 3 |, try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost. JOHN FOSTER DULLES (1888-1959)....

...the controversial "brink of war" interview he gave late in 1955 to James Shepley of Life magazine: The ability to get to the verge without getting into...you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink you are lost. We've had to look it square in the face — on the question of getting into...

...statements square with his eloquent appeals? In part they reflected an effort to intimidate the enemy — "The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art," Dulles told Life in 1956 — although Eisenhower well knew that intimidation meant nothing without...

...Hermann Coering announced, "Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat." Arms Race 1 The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art.... If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.... We walked to the brink...

...chances in war," and he defended going to the very verge of nuclear war to attain the nation's goal: "If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost."ii Brinksmanship impelled America to the edge of war with its every decision,...