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...Proclaimed Exclusions. After Dean Acheson, in a speech to Washington's National Press Club in January 1950, excluded Korea from the area that the U.S. intended to defend, the Communists attacked there. That hard lesson taught the U.S. how dangerous it was to exclude any part of the free world from a publicly proclaimed defense perimeter. The Eisenhower policy is to be very cautious with commitments about where the U.S. will send troops-and much more cautious about commitments of where it will not send troops...
...only authentic genius I know." Dean Acheson said that the two greatest minds he had ever met were Lord Keynes and Robert Oppenheimer. Those estimates measure his influence in postwar Washington. His most devoted followers and the source of much of his strength were the scientists still caught up in military work. He was their hope, and they were his. He called scientists in general "a limited but magnificent example of a real international fraternity...
...Lila Bell Acheson Wallace, 63, co-owner and co-editor with her husband DeWitt Wallace of Reader's Digest, has been added by Robert R. Young to his proposed slate of New York Central directors. If Young wins his battle for control of the Central, Mrs. Wallace will become the first woman director of a major U.S. railroad. Said she: "I think everything needs a woman's touch...
First, Nixon answered Stevenson's charge that the "new look" in U.S. military and foreign policy is sapping the strength of the armed forces in the interests of economy. His answer was the record of Truman: "We found that in seven years of the Truman-Acheson policy 600 million people had been lost to the Communists and not a single Russian soldier had been lost in combat. We found . . . that we were still involved in war in Korea, that it cost us 125,000 American boys as casualties . . . We found that we inherited a budget . . . which . . . would have added...
Conciliator Mundt broke in: "Joe, you're not dealing with Dean Acheson any longer. Let's look to the future." This remark was the turning point of Meeting No. 4; it led to Stevens' next big mistake. The discussion shifted to a friendly, businesslike tone, which lasted half an hour. The Senators appealed to Stevens to help preserve party solidarity by avoiding a televised clash with McCarthy which could only, they said, help the Democrats. Soothing words by a mellifluous Dirksen and smiles from McCarthy somehow convinced Bob Stevens that he had the committee's promise...