“The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art.”

—  John Foster Dulles

In [Stephen E. Ambrose, Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938, Ninth Revised Edition, https://books.google.com/books?id=5lzMtwXckcEC&pg=PT109, 2010, Penguin, 109]

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