Here then was the first test of the New Look and of the new Eisenhower-Dulles doctrine, the keystone of which was that no additional Asian country should fall to the Communists. For the next two months John Foster Dulles was a man constantly in motion, cajoling, pushing, and stroking allies, telling them half truths about each other, almost like a socially ambitious dinner party hostess who tells one prized would-be guest that another (who has not yet accepted) is coming in order to get the first guest to come.
