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Last week Scotty Reston passed along some exclusive and startling guidance to his readers: Secretary of State Acheson had reversed his policy on China. "Last January," Reston wrote, "Secretary of State Dean Acheson was ridiculing the Chinese Nationalists in public, exhorting the Dutch and the French to recognize that a revolution had taken place in Asia, and emphasizing that the first rule of United States policy in the Far East was to refrain from doing anything that would drive the Chinese Communists and the Soviet Communists together...
...wrote Reston, "Mr. Acheson is all for giving more help to Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, insisting that military considerations must determine United States policy toward the future of Formosa, [and] conducting a policy of economic sanctions against the Peiping regime...
...just what he had heard. Also he was reporting the kind of story the State Department would love to put out on a don't-quote-me basis to head off public irritation over continuing confusion about China. The facts, as other newsmen saw them, were quite different: Acheson was still governed by bitter resentment toward Chiang Kai-shek and the Chinese Nationalists. When the Joint Chiefs of Staff had proposed a counteroffensive against the Communists in a high-level conference, Acheson had opposed...
Besides Du Bois, four other officers of the "Peace Information Center," principal advocate of the Stockholm Appeal, were indicted. Secretary of State Dean Acheson branded the petition as "a propaganda trick...
...Survival. A few hours after Chou's reply was in hand, Secretary of State Dean Acheson belabored it as "an outright rejection . . . still further evidence of [Red China's] contemptuous disregard of a worldwide demand for peace." Next day at Lake Success, Warren Austin summoned the free nations again to "united resolution" against aggression...