Word: acheson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thus confronted by crisis and a doctrine to ease it, the House Foreign Relations Committee last week opened hearings (see below) on the President's plan. Both Secretary of State Dulles and ex-Secretary of State Acheson propounded long-stored-up views and ran the gauntlet of the kind of serious, specific questions that Congress must and should ask. In a sense this was the kind of foreign-policy debate, unheard amid the oratory on the H-bombs and Joe Smiths of the 1956 campaign, that was long overdue. In an other sense, however...
...leadership post an absolute, unflinching integrity that rises above politics. It inspires faith in his motives and gives weight to his words. Says Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson: "Any time Bill Knowland tells you something, you can believe it." In 1949 Knowland voted against the confirmation of Dean Acheson as Secretary of State in the Truman Administration, and he was the leading Senate critic of Acheson's Far Eastern policies. But he did not hesitate to stand on the Senate floor and pay tribute to Acheson's handling of the Japanese peace treaty. When Harry Truman was subjected...
Foreign Service Officers, who under Acheson were made to feel that their chief was ready to come to their defense if they were attacked, have seen Dulles shy away from any contact with John Paton Davies or John Service, when these two men were placed on the sacrificial altar of anti-Communism. Men away from Washington were horrified by the State Department's cowardice in the Ladejinsky affair. Although these incidents did not necessarily demand the approach which Acheson took towards the accusations against Alger Hiss and Owen Lattimore, the lack of any outright defense of the State Department against...
...would ex-Secretary of State Dean Acheson have handled the Suez crisis? He is much too discreet to say publicly, but privately he has been telling his Washington law associates and fellow guests at Georgetown cocktail parties that the Eisenhower Administration was all wrong on Suez. Acheson believes that "fumbling" by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles estranged the British and led them to their decision not to advise the U.S. of their plan to attack Egypt with the French and Israelis. Acheson does not necessarily approve the attack on Egypt, but thinks that once it was begun...
Thomas, who has frequently criticized the Administration's foreign policy, urged support of "Eisenhower's effort to use the U.N. as the world's main hope of avoiding World War III." He blamed Truman and Acheson for "failure to turn truce into peace before Russia [could achieve the] strength to interfere so ominously in the Middle East." Concluded Thomas: "The President, however, and the American people, who must deal with things as they now are, can only be hurt by the kind of pontificating [exemplified by] the Alsop effort...