Word: acheson
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...senior Republican Senator, Styles Bridges has gone after the Fair Deal with better effect. From his vantage point on the Senate Appropriations Committee, he has put a crimp in several of Harry Truman's expansive budgets, and led G.O.P. attacks on Dean Acheson and the Administration's Far East policy...
...time Truman, 67, and Churchill, 77, had met as heads of government since the Potsdam Conference in July 1945. Close behind the Prime Minister came his heir-apparent in the Conservative Party, Homburged, mustached Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, who soon was chatting with Homburged, mustached Secretary of State Dean Acheson. After introductions and speeches, Churchill and Truman climbed into the President's Lincoln (the P.M. cracked his hat on the low top) and drove off to begin their round of luncheons, banquets and conferences...
...like those that came out of the close intimacy of Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt. Harry Truman, painfully aware that he wasn't Roosevelt, had learned that he was no man to map U.S. diplomacy on the back of an envelope. Through most of the conferences he kept Dean Acheson close at hand. (During World War II Churchill hardly ever met Secretary of State Cordell Hull.) Nor was Churchill as sturdy as before: more & more he relied on Eden to catch what Churchill's ears missed and to recall details that his mind forgot. On Churchill's first...
...Stuart Symington is pulling out of the RFC (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Bolivians hope that a settlement is at last in sight in their ten-month-long row with the U.S. over the price of tin. Last week Ambassador Ricardo Martinez Vargas had a talk with President Truman, and Dean Acheson declared that it was "extremely important" for agreement to be reached quickly between the two countries...
...passing depresses Mossadegh to the point of tears and fainting spells. Just as often, he seems to regard the state of affairs with a light heart. When he came to the U.S. to plead his cause, mercurial Mossadegh was so ready with quips, anecdotes and laughter that Secretary Acheson thought the visitor should be reminded of the gravity of the situation. At a Blair House luncheon where Mossadegh was guest of honor, Acheson told a story: a wagon train, crossing the American West, was attacked by Indians. A rescue party found the wagons burned, and the corpses of the pioneers...