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Flying back from the West Coast together, France's Robert Schuman. Britain's Herbert Morrison, and the U.S.'s Dean Acheson began their conversations in the noisy intimacy of an Air Force plane. The discussion continued around a long elliptical table on the top floor of the State Department Annex, a block from the White House...
...France's proposals and concessions that agreement turned. Schuman won his argument for the Pleven plan of integrating German troops into a supranational European army. But, at Acheson's urging, he agreed to allow German troops to be called up by the Bonn government and trained by the U.S. before the European army was fully set up. Morrison abandoned Britain's opposition to the Schuman plan of international control of the Ruhr. But he got Schuman to concede that Britain need not be a full partner, promising only "the closest possible association...
...halls of Congress resounded last week with a strange and unfamiliar sound: praise of Secretary of State Dean Acheson. Some of his sharpest Republican critics led the chorus. "The job which Secretary Acheson did in presiding over the conference was outstanding," said California's William Knowland, who watched the San Francisco conference on the Japanese Treaty as an observer. "Commendable and brilliant," added New Jersey's H. (for Howard) Alexander Smith, an experienced adder. Even Ohio's Robert Taft conceded that Acheson had done a "very good...
Harry Truman was turkey-proud. This shows, Truman told reporters triumphantly, that "he's a lot smarter than any of these guys who have been attacking him." At his press conference, Truman squelched a rumor that Acheson was about to resign in his moment of triumph: "As long as I am President of the United States, he is going to be Secretary of State." said Harry Truman flatly...
...Matched Team. The Secretary's new popularity and the President's jubilation drew renewed attention to that loyal and ill-matched team, Truman and Acheson. The President has no long background in foreign affairs, is fascinated by Acheson's wide knowledge and his quick lawyer's ability to organize facts into telling arguments. Whenever Acheson has taken part in closed international conferences. U.S. and foreign observers have described his performance with the same word that Republican Smith used: "Brilliant." At San Francisco, all the world could see and admire the Acheson competence in a conference room...