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After the private session, Ike and Truman moved into the Cabinet Room with their advisers. There Dean Acheson did most of the talking. A joint press statement reported that Truman and Eisenhower had "worked out a framework of liaison and exchange of information," but made clear that "General Eisenhower has not been asked to assume any of the responsibilities of the presidency until he takes the oath of office." Before Ike left, Harry Truman handed him three loose-leaf volumes summarizing U.S. policies through the world, and top-secret plans in case of all-out Communist attack on Korea, Yugoslavia...
...warn publicly against the menace of Communism, and became a prime target of Moscow vilification ("warmonger . . . falsifier of facts"). He firmly supported the Administration's European policies (ECA, NATO). After a round of international parleys, giving Republican counsel to Democratic Secretaries of State Byrnes, Marshall and Acheson, he left bipartisan diplomacy for a fling at politics, took an appointment by Governor Thomas Dewey as interim New York Senator (June-December 1949). Running for the seat at the polls, he lost to Herbert Lehman. In 1950, the Democratic Administration drafted him again to do a job no one thought could...
...Jewish nationalism" recurred. Two Israeli Jews, Mordecai Oren and Shlomo Orenstein, who had been arrested many months ago while passing through Prague, were brought forth at the trial as witnesses and testified against the "Zionists." Orenstein said he knew of a plot hatched in 1947 by Harry Truman, Dean Acheson and Henry Morgenthau, with David Ben-Gurion and Moshe Sharett of Israel, to plant Israeli spies in the Communist Balkans in return for U.S. favors to Israel...
...Students at Harvard do not evaluate the material they are taught. The result is they are being indoctrinated with much left-wing theory of a color to match Harvard's crimson," she stated. "I believe this is even more true today than when Harvard was turning out Hiss, Jessup, Acheson, the Service Boys, and Lattimore," she concluded in the letter...
...many other notable people involved, the State Department must give specific reasons for its actions. . . Otherwise, how can one know whether to criticize the State Department or the law or whether indeed there is even a basis for such criticism. So far two letters and one telegram to Dean Acheson are un-answered...