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...press conference in Washington, Secretary of State Dean Acheson brought the situation into the open. The Italian government, he said, had recently complained to the U.S. about growing tariff restrictions and the Buy American discrimination. Specifically, Rome noted that U.S. manufacturers had persuaded the U.S. Tariff Commission to raise import duties on such Italian products as oranges, almonds, cheese and felt hat bodies. Said Acheson: "Inconsistencies in U.S. policies, caused by pressures for trade restrictions, weaken our world leadership...
Later, in his best legalistic manner, Secretary of State Dean Acheson explained the U.S. position. It was not a question of whether or not free discussion was in itself good, he said, but of whether at this time it would help settle the trouble. Quoting the man from whom he has drawn much of his philosophy, Dean Acheson added: "I think what we must always have in mind is Judge Holmes's famous statement that general principles do not decide concrete cases...
Texas Tom often talked and acted like a minor statesman, but his instincts on foreign affairs were generally simple, sound and shrewd. In committee hearings, he delighted in pricking such Administration witnesses as Secretary of State Dean Acheson and Presidential Adviser Averell Harriman. Frequently, he provoked howls from the Foreign Offices across the world by his sharp, irascible outbursts. (Recent sample: "France must be told that she cannot rely upon the U.S. to defend her and to hand out large sums of money . . . France must do her duty...
This week, at 74, old Tom formally bowed out as a candidate for reelection, leaving the field to Texas' anti-Fair Deal Attorney General Price Daniel. Daniel had made remarkable headway in his campaign by exploiting Tom's connections with Truman and Acheson, and questioning (unjustly) Tom's enthusiasm for a bill to give tidelands oil back to Texas. "My friends in Texas say I could be re-elected," said Tom, "but it would require a bitter-no, not bitter-an arduous campaign ... It might kill...
...back as Brazil's constitutionally elected President, but his country has held back from joining U.N. forces in Korea. Recently, at a time when a special U.S. mission was in Rio to talk over important development, loans, his administration decreed money-transfer regulations considered irksome to foreign investors. Acheson and his advisers believe it is high time to re-establish personal contacts between Vargas and top U.S. officials. The Secretary's visit, they expect, will open the way for a state visit by President Vargas to the U.S. later this year...