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...time when the most ordinary variations of sound rang out like cymbals. Along Pennsylvania Avenue the hammers beat together a cubistic forest of grandstands for the inauguration. A friend spotted Mrs. Dean Acheson-who is accustomed to a solidly booked social calendar-wandering into a movie. Dean Acheson showed up at a congressional hearing relatively unbriefed and unconcerned. Harry Truman earnestly asked Congress to make tax-free the expense accounts of the new President (saving Ike $39,000), Vice President (saving: $5,600) and Speaker of the House (saving: $3,600)-and urged Congress to hurry, because a President...
...official line, holds that the Communist conquest of China had nothing to do with anything U.S. diplomats did or failed to do. And only last February, after a departmental hearing, State cleared the loyalty of John Carter Vincent, once the most influential of its Old China Hands. Secretary Dean Acheson himself gave Vincent "best wishes" and assurance of "full confidence...
...recommended that Vincent be dismissed. State responded by suspending the diplomat and ordering him home from Tangier, where he was assigned 21 months ago as Minister. The final decision to fire him must come from Harry Truman, who promised to talk it over with Dean Acheson...
Window Dressing? The diplomats and economists prevailed. "We have to do what we can do, not what we'd like to do," said Dean Acheson, representing the U.S. at his last big international conference. Without admitting it, the 42 ministers abandoned the goals set in their famed Lisbon Conference last February, shrugging off their talk of 70 divisions by 1953 as mere "window dressing" designed at the time to impress the U.S. Congress. The ministers cut in half the soldiers' urgent request for $420 million to continue construction of NATO airfields, radar network and jet-fuel pipelines...
...Paris, and his last NATO conference as Secretary of State, Dean Acheson told reporters in Washington that after Jan. 20 he is going to take a long vacation with his wife in the West Indies. After that, "I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office...