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...Word Unspoken. The Western plan was presented to the 60 nations of the U.N. with flourishes - in a formal American-British-French resolution, in a speech by President Truman from Wash ington, and finally in a cool, point-by-point Assembly address by U.S. Secretary of State Acheson...
...Soviet Union has talked a great deal about peace, but when it comes to achieving peace through deeds . . . they obstruct," said Acheson. "They call for a new five-power pact but refuse to carry out our 60-power peace pact...
Before the paint was dry on the $3,000, 000 temporary new U.N. building, facing the Eiffel Tower across the Seine, the buzz of diplomacy began. The Egyptians wooed their fellow Arabs; the Russians tended their dovecotes secretly, but undoubtedly had some new mutation of peace dove to exhibit. Acheson and Eden ate dinner together, and had private talks with France's Robert Schuman. Schuman thereupon announced that the West had prepared a U.N. peace program that would be "a world sensation...
...Plans. Acheson had come to Paris with a far-reaching proposition to lay before the U.N.-stressing, as Russian proposals usually do, a willingness to talk peace. Some of its essentials: swift completion of a truce in Korea; a fresh call for world disarmament and simultaneous control of atomic energy, based on full inspection; Western agreement to four-power negotiations with Russia any time Russia had something genuine to offer. But it was prepared to go further. Last year, Acheson's "Uniting for Peace" resolution transformed the lowly Assembly from a debating society into an agency that might take...
...polls have shown, wrote Gallup in this week's New York Times Magazine, that a third of American adults do not know that Dean Acheson is Secretary of State. In one series of questions (Where is Manchuria? Formosa? What is the 38th parallel? The Atlantic pact? Who is Chiang Kaishek? Tito?), almost a fifth of the people asked couldn't answer a single one. Most of them, said he, had exaggerated ideas of the power of A-bombs, thought a few could erase a whole nation, and thus had no idea of the cost...