The late Secretary of State John Foster Dulles considered the 1954 Geneva agreement a specimen of appeasement, saw that resolution would be needed to keep it from becoming a calamity for the West.

In 1954, the Secretary of Defense stated, " I know of no American satellite program.

* Secretary: Alcide De Gasperi ( 1944 – 1946 ), Attilio Piccioni ( 1946 – 1949 ), Giuseppe Cappi ( 1949 ), Paolo Emilio Taviani ( 1949 – 1950 ), Guido Gonella ( 1950 – 1953 ), Alcide De Gasperi ( 1953 – 1954 ), Amintore Fanfani ( 1954 – 1959 ), Aldo Moro ( 1959 – 1964 ), Mariano Rumor ( 1964 – 1969 ), Flaminio Piccoli ( 1969 ), Arnaldo Forlani ( 1969 – 1973 ), Amintore Fanfani ( 1973 – 1975 ), Benigno Zaccagnini ( 1975 – 1980 ), Flaminio Piccoli ( 1980 – 1982 ), Ciriaco De Mita ( 1982 – 1989 ), Arnaldo Forlani ( 1989 – 1992 ), Mino Martinazzoli ( 1992 – 1994 )

The Secretary of the Air Force, Harold E. Talbott, announced the winning site on 24 June 1954.

Paul Henri Charles Spaak ( 25 January 1899 – 31 July 1972 ) was a Belgian Socialist politician and statesman, who served as Prime Minister of Belgium ( 1938 – 1939, 1946 and 1947 – 1949 ), as the first President of the United Nations General Assembly ( 1946 – 1957 ), as the first President of the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community ( 1952 – 1954 ), and as the second Secretary General of NATO ( 1957 – 1961 ).

A post of Minister of Welsh Affairs was created in 1951 under the Home Secretary and was upgraded to Minister of State level in 1954.

Sato gradually rose through the ranks of Japanese politics, becoming Chief Cabinet Secretary to Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida from January 1953 to July 1954.

Wallace H. White, Jr., class of 1899, served as Senate Minority Leader from 1944 – 1947 and Senate Majority Leader from 1947 – 1949 ; George J. Mitchell, class of 1954, served as Senate Majority Leader from 1989-1995 before assuming a prominent role in the Northern Ireland peace process ; and William Cohen, class of 1962, spent twenty-five years in the House and Senate before being appointed Secretary of Defense in the Clinton Administration.

* Michael P. Jackson ( born 1954 ), U. S. Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security, 2005 – 2007

A few hours after the French Union defeat at Dien Bien Phu in May 1954, United States Secretary of State John Foster Dulles made an official speech depicting the " tragic event " and " its defense for fifty seven days and nights will remain in History as one of the most heroic of all time.

Freeman was elected Governor in 1954, re-elected in 1956 and 1958, and after losing re-election in 1960 was appointed by President John F. Kennedy to serve as U. S. Secretary of Agriculture.

He became First Secretary of the Bulgarian Communist Party in 1954 and remained on this position for 35 years, until 1989, thus becoming the longest-serving leader of any Eastern Bloc nation, and one of the longest ruling non-royal leaders in history.

The hardline Stalinist Chervenkov was removed as General Secretary of the BKP in 1954 under Soviet pressure.

They include Executive Committee Member of Mambili Party, Accra ( 1935 – 37 ); General Secretary of National Council of Nigerian and the Cameroons ( 1944 – 45 ); President of the NCNC ( 1946 – 60 ); Vice-President of the Nigerian National Democratic Party ( 1947 – 60 ); Member for Lagos in the Legislative Council of Nigeria ( 1947 – 51 ); Member for Lagos and Leader of the Opposition in the Western House of Assembly ( 1952 – 53 ) Member for Onitsha in the Eastern House of Assembly ( 1954 – 60 ); Minister of Internal Affairs ( Jan .– September 1954 ); Minister of Internal Affairs, Eastern Region ( 1954 ); Member of His Excellency Privy Council, Eastern Nigeria ( 1954 – 59 ); Primer of Eastern Nigeria ( 1954 – 59 ); President of the Senate of the Federation ( Jan .- November 1960 ); Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief of Nigeria ( 1960 – 63 ); President of the Republic of Nigeria ( 1963 – 1966 ); and Chairman and Presidential candidate of the Nigeria People ’ s Party ( 1978 – 83 ).

Gale Ann Norton ( born March 11, 1954 ) served as the 48th United States Secretary of the Interior from 2001 to 2006 under President George W. Bush.

He was chairman and president of American Motors Corporation from 1954 to 1962, the 43rd Governor of Michigan from 1963 to 1969, and the United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 1969 to 1973.

On April 14, 1954, a reply was received from the Secretary of State who rejected the request for an interview.

After the Communists victory in China, Li was appointed Party Secretary of Hubei Province in China from 1949 – 1954, and Commander of the Hubei Province's military garrison and political commissar.

When asked about the possibility in a November 1954 press conference, Defense Secretary Wilson replied " I wouldn't care if they did.

* 1954 – A Royal Canadian Air Force Canadair Harvard collided with a Trans-Canada Airlines Canadair North Star over Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, killing 37 people.

The Air Staff issued this requirement for a Stand-off bomb as OR. 1132 in September 1954.

( 1952 ); Mark Antony in Joseph L. Mankiewicz's 1953 film adaptation of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar ; and as Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver in Sayonara ( 1957 ), Joshua Logan's adaption of James Michener's 1954 novel.

** Veterans Day, called Armistice Day until 1954, when the holiday was rededicated to be in honor all American military, naval, and Air Force, veterans.

* 1954 – Benjamin O. Davis Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.

Air supply failed to prevent the fall of Dien Bien Phu to the Vietnamese in 1954 but proved crucial in maintaining the American base at Khe Sanh in 1968.

* Polmar, Norman, Strategic Air Command, 1st Edition, Nautical & Aviation Publishing, 1954

Following the recommendation of the Board, Congress passed legislation in 1954 to begin the construction of the Air Force Academy, and President Eisenhower signed it into law on 1 April of that year.

In 1954 Kittinger was transferred to Holloman AFB, New Mexico and the Air Force Missile Development Center ( AFMDC ).

He transferred with the 21st when it was relocated to Chaumont-Semoutiers Air Base, France in June 1954.

Other golf resorts are the Tamarisk, Mission Hills, the Springs, Sunrise, KSL Resorts ' Rancho Las Palmas hotel ( opened in 1979 to replace the Desert Air golf and private airport from 1954 – 1978 ), Rancho Mirage, Morningside, Mission Hills North Course, Westin Hotels Mission Hills resort, and Tuscania by Sunrise Company opened in 2006.

On August 4, 1954, an Air France Lockheed L-1049C Super Constellation flying from Orly Airport to Idlewild Airport crashed near Preston.

To expedite services of Robins AFB to U. S. Air Force units all over the world, the 7th Logistic Support Squadron was transferred to Robins AFB in October 1954 with C-124 Globemaster transport airplanes.

* 1727th Air Transport Squadron ( MATS ), 9 October 1948 – 1 November 1954

* 7th Air Transport Squadron ( MATS ), 18 October 1954 – 8 January 1966

The Elsah area was also one of the two finalists for the site of the Air Force Academy in 1954.

In February 1954, the United States Air Force announced plans to enlarge its forces.

Originally named Great Falls Army Air Base, later Great Falls Air Force Base, the facility was renamed Malmstrom Air Force Base on 1 October 1955 in honor of Colonel Einar Axel Malmstrom ( 1907 – 1954 ).

After his release and return to active Air Force service, he died in the crash of a T-33 Shooting Star trainer on 21 August 1954 near Great Falls Air Force Base.

However, in 1954, two Citizens Military Force ( reserve ) units, 1 and 2 Commando Companies, were raised.

it deployed from Great Falls to RAF Molesworth, United Kingdom ( UK ), and set up operations as part of USAFE's Third Air Force in February 1954.

In 1954, Lake Geneva was named as one of the three finalists for the location of the new United States Air Force Academy, but ultimately lost to Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Ilan Ramon ( June 20, 1954 – February 1, 2003 ;, born Ilan Wolferman ) was an Israeli fighter pilot in the Israeli Air Force, and later the first Israeli astronaut.

It was constructed from 1952 – 1954 and until recently it was one of the largest establishments of the Royal Norwegian Air Force.

In April 1954, he took command of Cruiser Division Six, then moved in January 1955 to command Destroyer Force Atlantic Fleet.

He was Commandant of the Army Cadet Force in Scotland from 1948 to 1959 ; Colonel of the Cameronians, 1951 to 1954 ; Lord Lieutenant of Ross and Cromarty from 1955 to 1964 and served as Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1964.

" was a catchphrase in the BBC radio comedy show " Much Binding in the Marsh ", which ran from 1944 to 1954 and was initially about life on a mythical Royal Air Force ( RAF ) station.

He went on to be Station Commander at RAF Wahn in 1954, Deputy Chief of Staff at Headquarters Second Tactical Air Force in 1961 and Director of the Defence Operations Staff on formation of the Ministry of Defence in 1964.