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Some of America's associates in mutual defense were also having grave difficulties, partly because of the conflict between arms needs and the pressure for a higher standard of living. To seek a way out of the growing crisis in Western defense, many U.S. leaders, including Acheson, Lovett, Harriman and Bradley, had gathered in Paris, journeyed out to Marly to consult with SHAPE'S General Dwight Eisenhower. The problem with which they wrestled cast a shadow over Thanksgiving rejoicing...
...inspection of its armament-and on the abolition of atomic weapons before a large-scale reduction of conventional armaments. (The Russians, who control the world's biggest armies, want to impose an arbitrary one-third reduction on the troops of all the Big Five powers.) Sniffed Dean Acheson: "This takes us back...
Following Vishinsky was French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman. Like Anthony Eden's rejoinder earlier in the week, his speech was as firm in substance as Acheson's, but more moderate in tone. Said Schuman to Vishinsky: "I am quite prepared to believe that you do not want war. I am trying to be fairer to you than you are to us. War is prepared secretly, like evil deeds. Let us do away with this secrecy. I know full well that our regimes are in opposition and cannot be reconciled, but they can exist alongside each other without resorting...
Charter." If Russia really wants peace, said Acheson, she had only to say the word, and "the fighting could end in Korea . . . But has it been spoken?" The Dead Mouse. Bounding to the stand about three hours after Dean Acheson had spoken, Vishinsky carried a made-in-Moscow speech into which he had scratched hasty insertions to rebut...
...Corridor Echo. The West's response was quick and cold. "The most impressive point, as far as I am concerned," said Dean Acheson, "is Mr. Vishinsky's statement that facts are stubborn things, because he wrestled with facts for two hours and lost...