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...victory? The U.N. had stamped on the reaching fingers of an aggressor, then forced him to snatch his fingers back. But few could accept with any enthusiasm Dean Acheson's insistence that a truce at the 38th parallel would mean "a successful conclusion" to the war. Acheson said: "Our objective is to stop the attack, end the aggression, restore peace-providing against the renewal of the aggression." That, said Acheson, was what the United Nations...
...room 5105, where they had been meeting twice a week for months to be briefed on the progress of the war, the diplomats were briefed on the progress of the peace negotiations. On the same afternoon-Wednesday-President Truman summoned his National Security Council, including Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Secretary of Defense George Marshall and seven other top advisers. Next morning the President made his decision on the next step. He said he was "moderately hopeful" that it would bring peace in Korea. The plan was to have General Matthew Ridgway, as U.N. commander, invite the enemy...
...Mossadeq was suspending plans to rush through an anti-sabotage bill (which would, in effect, have made the British responsible for any accidents during the takeover). Mossadeq dispatched a letter to President Truman asking "the great and esteemed American nation" for understanding and "help." But Secretary of State Dean Acheson had already outlined the U.S. attitude by charging Iran with "threat and fear" tactics...
...Formula. Like the White House, the State Department has an official "spokesman," Press Chief Mike McDermott, who has been in the department for 31 years. But soon after Dean Acheson became Secretary, State installed a young man known to the staff as "the high-level leak," to give major correspondents as much "background" information as he thought necessary to put over State's point. When State's troubles multiplied, Acheson and his high command took to talking to reporters and selected pundits in relays, have-now staged nearly 1,000 such off-the-record conferences...
Joseph, 40, and Stewart Alsop, 37, put out their own special mixture, a blending of political and economic punditry, forecasts and crusades, e.g., their defense of Dean Acheson and attacks on Louis Johnson while Defense Secretary. Yaleman Stewart is scholarly, quiet; Harvardman Joe, aggressive, facile, gregarious, steers the team. The brothers soak up information incessantly at interviews (upwards of 40 a week), at Joe's lavish parties in his cinder-block-and-glass house in Georgetown, or by legwork around the globe. (Each spends at least part of the year abroad...