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...where it wants to go and striking at the enemy who stands in the way. As long as the U.S. is passive, every specific problem from Indonesia to France is "impossible." If the U.S. takes the initiative, most of the problems will be seen as opportunities. The closest Secretary Acheson has come to recognizing this is to say that the U.S. is trying to create "situations of strength." But a situation of strength needs to be used to create new and greater situations of strength...
...Liberal Union said it had recently passed a resolution favoring Secretary of State Acheson's policy of arms shipments and other aids to Europe. The H.L.U. amplified this resolution to brand Hoover and Taft as "dangerous and inimical to the nation's welfare...
...blood, no sweat, no tears ever smudge the neat laundering of Acheson's sentences, or the mannerliness of his theories. Just as Europeans do not quite catch his urgency, the U.S. people-or at least a good many of them-cannot quite tune...
...controversy over Acheson has intensified an atmosphere of disunity in the nation at a time when the U.S. is also engaged in another, deeper debate-about where its lines of defense really lie. Has Dean Acheson become such a political liability that in this time of crisis he constitutes a national danger? There are two practical answers now-either Dean Acheson must go, or events must move so fast that national unity, a vital necessity in a time like the present, will come perforce. It is the second answer that Harry Truman is apparently banking...
Last September, while in London, Assistant Secretary of State George McGhee tried to convey U.S. concern to Whitehall. The British politely pointed out to him that they had long experience in dealing with the Iranians, and that was that. An attempt by Secretary of State Dean Acheson to raise the issue with Foreign Secretary Bevin during the latter's recent visit to New York was equally fruitless. The British Foreign Secretary hinted to Acheson that the Iranians could not be so desperate for money, otherwise they would be more anxious to accept the new terms...