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Next day it was Stevenson's turn. As usual, he gave a good performance. His English, however, was more polished than plain, and he sidestepped Nixon's specific questions on whether or not he favors Acheson's foreign policy, the Brannan Plan, federal seizure of the tidelands. Comparing Alben Barkley, 74, to Richard Nixon, 39, Stevenson remarked: "The Republican Party is the party which makes even its young men seem old. The Democratic Party is the party which makes even its old men seem young...
...other words, the Republicans will try to show the tolerance of Communist infiltration issue as a broad and continuing characteristic of the Democratic Party. Part of the Republican ammunition is the failure of Democratic leaders to make certain motions to get themselves off this hook. Secretary Acheson said that he would not turn his back on Alger Hiss. Harry Truman's last word on the Hiss case was to call it a "red herring...
Could Dean Acheson take credit for a revived spirit in Western Europe? Replied Dulles sharply: "I think practically all the credit for the somewhat improved morale in Europe goes to General Eisenhower." Things are at their worst in the "areas of the world where General Eisenhower had no responsibility...
Suspicious of the Creditanstalt's activities, U.S. High Commissioner Walter Donnelly (now Ambassador to Bonn), made a point of snubbing Joham, excluded him when he invited Austrians to meet Secretary of State Acheson in Vienna recently, and pressed unsuccessfully for his removal from the bank. But Austrian offi cials did hire an American auditing firm, at $500 a day, for a year-long look at the books. They soon found a foreign-currency employee who admitted engaging in illegal currency deals with people in Switzerland. He implicated others...
From the start, the Pentagon stupidly balked at giving definite security guarantees to Australia and New Zealand. President Truman and Dean Acheson. careless of Pacific affairs, fiddled & faddled. When President Truman's Pentagon refused to send any top brass to the Anzus meeting, President Truman's Acheson thought he better go in person, in the hope that his prestige would give the meeting standing, and help to disguise the U.S. failure to offer anything concrete to her eager Pacific partners...