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...Johnson declared firmly, "I shall not indulge in personalities," and he didn't. "I am trying to be a good boy," he said. But he left no doubt that the two top men in Harry Truman's Cabinet-he and Dean Acheson-had differed sharply. Military policy, said Johnson, was "being influenced by the State Department prior to a simon-pure decision by Defense." Their chief differences were over Formosa. "The Defense Department battled day in & day out to keep Formosa out of hostile hands...
...fire offer in January. That cease-fire offer proposed that the fate of Formosa be discussed by a body which would include four specified nations-Russia, Communist China, Britain and the U.S.-a peculiar foursome in which only the U.S. was at all willing to save Formosa from Mao. Acheson lamely explained: "It did not say there should be [only] four, and you could have 50 as long as the four were in the group." Said George: "Mr. Secretary, on that point, I thought we had very frankly made a mistake and prayed considerable during about three days that...
Virginia's Harry Byrd drew an admission that U.S. authorities had long ago recognized the dangers of a North Korean invasion, but withdrew U.S. troops anyway. Acheson argued that all U.S. authorities, including the J.C.S. and MacArthur had approved the decision, and that it was taken because of a recommendation by the United Nations (which, he neglected to say, the U.S. initiated). Snapped Byrd: ". . . That doesn't make it an accurate or proper recommendation...
...minutes, eleven light planes had joined it-like rooks gliding in for a fence-rail convention. Almost all the brass in Korea, from the Eighth Army's Lieut. General James A. Van Fleet to commanders of the allied detachments fighting in Korea, had been summoned. In Washington, Dean Acheson said that he didn't know that the Defense Secretary had left town...
Ordinarily, the two would not be in possession of top military secrets, but would have access to confidential information. If they were in fact working for the Russians, they could have got hold of a lot more. In Washington, Secretary of State Acheson agreed that their defection might be "quite a serious matter...