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...question was and is: Who is right about Far Eastern policy, MacArthur or the Administration? The question itself pointed the true poles of the argument, MacArthur and Secretary of State Dean Acheson. It was Secretary Acheson's view which prevailed with the President: do nothing to widen the war; let the Communists keep the initiative. The General MacArthur view-a limited extension of the war against China, a full recognition of the proposition that Communism was already making its big bid for world domination in Asia-had not yet been heard in full (see page...
...Fleet himself, unaware of it, was vacationing on his brother's Florida farm when his appointment to Korea was announced. Monday, Truman saw his congressional leaders and met with the Cabinet, asked opinions of both groups, but told neither what he planned later. Secretary of State Dean Acheson undoubtedly already knew about it, but through the historic week, Acheson, architect of the Asia policy that MacArthur attacked, kept assiduously out of the press and out of sight...
...Belgian officials, left Washington last week for a look at the country. They inspected a General Motors truck plant in Detroit and a chemical factory in Muscle Shoals, Ala., rode in a helicopter at Wright Field. Back in Washington the Premier had lunch at Blair House with Dean Acheson and Harry Truman...
...Western Hemisphere foreign ministers (see HEMISPHERE). Between times he made a quick trip to the Naval Academy at Annapolis, visited Mount Vernon, laid a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery and attended another formal dinner given by Secretary of State Dean Acheson...
...improve the defense of this hemisphere [and] what measures we can best undertake to support and strengthen the U.N. in [Korea]." So said President Truman last week to the conference of the hemisphere's foreign ministers, assembled in Washington in response to an emergency call by Dean Acheson...