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...Paris at the U.N. Assembly, a real propaganda blooper was Vishinsky's report that he could do nothing but laugh after hearing Dean Acheson propose...
...emissary there." Later, a young Republican asked: "What would you do about the war in Korea?" Replied Taft: "A deadlocked peace is better than a deadlocked war. I think we'd better make a deadlock peace and go on from there. The Russians moved into Korea after Acheson and the President had publicly announced that we would never defend it . . . In Korea, we stand exactly where we stood when we entered, except everything has been leveled to the ground . . . The Administration didn't want to win the war in Korea. Certainly no nation has been as idiotic...
From all over the world, other official mourners poured into London to play their ordained parts in the pageant. U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson and his wife arrived in President Truman's private plane, the Independence. At 3 that same afternoon, the Queen's husband Philip went to London Airport to meet his aunt, the Queen of Sweden, and her royal husband Gustaf Adolf. Exiled Prince Paul of Yugoslavia came, and was whisked off by his sister-in-law the Duchess of Kent-just in time to avoid meeting Yugoslavia's Communist President Ribar. Francisco Franco...
...Spanish policy and the reasons behind it remain misty after an 11-page chapter, but that may be the fault of the program and not of the presentation. Bundy adds little to the book by explaining at the start where he disagrees with our present policies. This volume is Acheson's record, not an attempt of others to evaluate the program...
...book is a fine monument to Acheson, one that probably could not have been created to other less intellectual Secretaries of State. When the book was started more than a year ago, many of Acheson's friends--perhaps even the editor--may have had doubts whether he would survive in office to see the publication. But today more and more people are beginning to agree that "Acheson will be listed 50 years from now (as) among the best of our American Secretaries of State...