Unfortunately, the hyperbole of the inaugural outran the provisions of the budget. - Dean Acheson

Throughout the Near East lay rare tinder for anti-Western propaganda: a Moslem culture and history, bitter Arab nationalism galled by Jewish immigration under British protection and with massive American financial support, the remnants of a colonial status, and a sense of grievance that a vast natural resource was being extracted by foreigners under arrangements thought unfair to those living on the surface. This tinder could be, and was, lighted everywhere...

The best environment for diplomacy is found where mutual confidence between governments exists...

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