The truth is our weapon

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"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.". "Based on American, British, Eastern European, and Soviet primary sources - many only recently unearthed - The Truth is Our Weapon is a major contribution to the historiography of Eisenhower's diplomacy and an important statement about the implications of public and private policy making."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: Rhetoric,  Cold War,  Political and social views,  Political aspects of Rhetoric,  Foreign relations,  History,  Eisenhower, dwight d. (dwight david), 1890-1969,  Dulles, john foster, 1888-1959,  United states, foreign relations, 1945-1961,  United states, foreign relations, soviet union,  Soviet union, foreign relations, united states,  United states, foreign relations, communist countries,  Communist countries, foreign relations,  Rhetorik,  Relationer,  Kalla kriget,  Ost-West-Konflikt,  Diplomatic relations,  Political aspects,  Diplomatie

People: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969),  John Foster Dulles (1888-1959)

Places: Communist countries,  Soviet Union,  United States

Times: 1953-1961,  20th century