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...meek & mild that Churchill rumbled: "I can hardly see a point of difference between us except that he has to do his best to move a vote of censure." The Laborite move was really an attempt to censure the U.S., said Churchill. He read from Secretary of State Dean Acheson's closed-door explanation to members of the House: "It is only as the result of what in the U.S. is known as a 'snafu'"-Churchill rolled the unfamiliar word around for a while and it came out snayfooo* -"that you were not consulted about...
...recovered from the bad-case of personal pique over Washington's failure to warn him of the Yalu bombings. "I do not remember any occasion when a more candid and manly course has been taken by a prominent public man," he said of Acheson's explanation...
...Dean Acheson was in England to receive an Oxford degree and attend a Big Three Foreign Ministers' conference. Hearing the furor, he lunched with Anthony Eden, quickly agreed to a proposal by Lord Alexander (made before the fuss began) that Britain should have a deputy on the high command in Korea. Then he stepped before a special meeting of some 300 M.P.s in the grand committee room of ancient Westminster Hall. The bombing, he said, was a military undertaking, not a political move, and the U.S. was not obliged to notify Britain in advance. He expressed regret, however, that...
...ignorant assertions that went unchallenged-such as that the U.S. is training Chiang Kaishek's troops in Korea itself. Some Britons actually seemed to believe that a truce had been in operation in Korea until the U.S. bombers dropped their payloads last week, and seemed shocked when Acheson told them the "lull" had cost the U.N. 30,000 casualties...
Although a few Red-led hecklers hung about the town to shout "Go home, Acheson," Oxonians appeared hospitably disposed toward Secretary of State Dean Acheson, who, elegant in cap & gown, entered Oxford's Sheldonian Theater in a procession led by an old acquaintance, University Chancellor Lord Halifax, and got an honorary degree, Doctor of Civil...