Word: acheson
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...Army, author of the much-discussed Wedemeyer Report. He had already put in for retirement, and he was in a position to talk freely. He did. Wedemeyer tossed a cord of fresh logs on to the dying bonfire of the MacArthur controversy, bluntly criticized not only Dean Acheson but also his own old friend, George Catlett Marshall. And he had a startling plan for dealing with world Communism: abandon the Korean campaign and come to an open break with the U.S.S.R...
...General Marshall, on his mission to China, radioed the President in 1946, urging that Wedemeyer be made ambassador to China. But later in Washington, Acheson, then Under Secretary of State, showed Wedemeyer a telegram saying that the news had leaked out in China and the "Communists are protesting violently." "Acheson said, 'I'm sorry about this, Wedemeyer,' and I told the Secretary, 'Well, I'm not-[but] I don't think that the Communists should determine who should be appointed by our Government.' " He had already bought an "ambassadorial trousseau to the tune...
...Acheson's exclusion of Formosa and Korea from the U.S. defense perimeter in January 1950 had undoubtedly reassured the Communists in their planning...
...producing past documents to show that the Republicans had rarely lifted a voice to protest U.S. policy steps when they were taken, and Connecticut's Brien McMahon, politicking for all he was worth, and joined by Maverick Republican Wayne Morse, demanded an investigation of the "China lobby."* Acheson coolly resisted most Democratic attempts to get him to concur in attacks on MacArthur or the Republicans...
...Acheson had been warned over & over by his advisers to keep his temper at all costs, and he kept it. Only once did he show a flash of personal emotion, when one Senator charged that U.S. authorities knew Japan was licked at Yalta and that the concessions to Russia were unnecessary. Said Acheson: "My own son was out there in the Navy at the time of Yalta, believing the [Japanese] could take an awful lot of chances...