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...ACHESON : "I wouldn't say either ... I am not trying to analyze the matter, Senator...
Temper & Civility. As the committee got down to the cross-examining of Acheson, a calm seemed to settle over the hearing room. Not in years had an investigation in which feelings ran so high been conducted in so temperate and fair-minded a fashion. Both parties were duly sensitive to political nuances, but even more sensitive to the perilous complexities of the issues they discussed...
...ACHESON : "The State Department was not advised by the Joint Chiefs of Staff or by anyone that Formosa was of no strategic importance ... I think this paragraph [in the propaganda directive] talks about mistaken conceptions of its strategic importance to the U.S. in defense of the Pacific. There had been a great deal of talk . . . that the loss of Formosa would be catastrophic ... indeed, there have been statements to the effect that if it were lost, the defense of the U.S. would be thrown back to our western coast. That, I think, is not a view which has been held...
...ACHESON : "Yes, sir. When I said within the Government, I mean within the Washington branches of the Government...
...ACHESON : "One very important change took place ... On the 26th or 27th of June . . . the Seventh Fleet was put in there ... If that had not been done, I believe Formosa would have fallen...