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...Acheson then enveloped the Foreign Service officers in his own private hair shirt. "You know that you are the targets of unfounded and wicked criticism. You are the objects of deep distrust. It is the wide belief of the American people that other men should have known better than you and spared us our troubles. What is going on in our midst has been going on through the course of mankind. It was especially true of the Middle Ages. There were murders and backstairs accusations then as now . . . There are some who believe that this will change with...
...Great Lag. What was that knowledge? Among other things, said Acheson, a good Foreign Service officer must be prepared to take part in "battles with Congress." He continued: "Make no mistake about it. There is a real battle with Congress. There is a great lag in the education and information between you who know the outside world and the great mass of the American people and their elected representatives, a great lag between you who know the facts of the world and the 150 million people who really govern the U.S. . . . You must learn to take it and live with...
...substance, Dean Acheson had said that the Foreign Service should ignore the mandate for a change in administration, and-by identifying itself closely with Acheson's own difficulties-retain a kind of blood brotherhood loyalty to the Truman-Acheson policies. This presented the Eisenhower Administration with still another problem of inertia to overcome...
...most of all, Acheson went a long way toward satisfying the long-standing claims of his critics that he mistrusts the American people...
...Minister arrived at the White House sporting shoes with zippers down the side. Always unabashed in his pursuit of comfort, he did not hesitate to keep his unusual footgear unzippered even at formal functions. In the White House, where he and Truman were joined by Administration bigwigs including Dean Acheson and Secretary of Defense Robert Lovett, Churchill gravely reviewed the global struggle against Communism. Proudly he recalled to his host the 1946 speech at Fulton, Mo., in which, publicly proclaiming the breach between Russia and the free world, he had coined the term Iron Curtain. Mrs. Roosevelt, the Prime Minister...