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Part of the credit must go to the editor who has done much more than the usual scissors-and-paste job. Most of the book is Acheson's own words, but dozens of different speeches, Senate committee appearances, and press conferences have been skillfully blended to tell the story of our policy in the Far East in Germany, in Spain, and elsewhere...
Naturally, the book's success really rests on the high literary content and "specific gravity" of Acheson's words. It is a pleasure to be able to read his speeches without fear of distorting omissions; included in the book is almost all of Acheson's masterful summary of the Chinese problem, as he presented it to the Senate committees last June...
...speeches show no ghost-writer's influence with the Secretary at his best when speaking extemporaneously. In this category is his talk to the Society of Newspaper Editors shortly after McCarthy began his antics. These few pages of Acheson's prose are the most effective defense yet offered for his Department against the patriotic character assassins of today...
...successes. Taft in particular points toward Administration stupidity as the source of Russian power; for instance, he terms the Korean War useless because it could have been prevented by leaving American troops in Korea after the war. Yet four years ago, the Senator turned a deaf ear to Secretary Acheson's plea for military and economic aid to Korea...
Europeans to take a bigger step than they are yet willing to try. But with the Schuman and European Army plans, they are nevertheless walking in the direction Ike pointed-achieving more unity in five years, as Dean Acheson recently remarked, than in the previous five centuries...