FOREIGN RELATIONS: Doctrine's First Fruits

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Richards had already had an impact on Egypt and Jordan without setting foot in either country. By winning good will and understanding in other Middle East countries, he had weakened Nasser's claim to Arab-world leadership and strengthened Jordan's Westward-leaning King Hussein (see FOREIGN NEWS).

Travel-weary and 10 Ibs. lighter by the time he left Addis Ababa, Dick Richards might have wished that he had stayed home in South Carolina, watching his cows eat grass. But President Eisenhower had good reason to be pleased with the Richards mission. As Richards himself put it to a U.S. newsman in Baghdad: "I don't claim that we have moved mountains, but we have made appreciable dents in them."