Word: acheson
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...were uncomprehending or prejudiced; that China policy was being made in Washington largely by the haters of Chiang's Kuomintang government; that no one who warned of the threat of Asiatic Communism was listened to in Washington ; that right up to the invasion of Korea by Communist Chinese, Acheson's State Department continued hopefully to stroke the fur of the Red leader, Mao Tse-tung...
...House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing, Congressman Walter Judd, ex-missionary to China and longtime critic of Acheson, made one observation apropos the State Department's alibis: "I can give you a thousand reasons why we cannot succeed in China, but our job is to find means by which we can succeed." Those means were never thoroughly explored...
...Most of the old Far East policymakers have been scattered to other fields. John Carter Vincent was sent to Switzerland. Walton Butterworth, who followed Vincent as head of the Far East section, was sent to Sweden. The most notable survivor among the architects of the "China mistake" is Secretary Acheson...
...With a much clearer eye, in January 1949 the new Secretary had faced Western Europe. Dean Gooderham Acheson, son of an Anglican cleric, graduate of Groton, Yale and Harvard Law School, could understand the West...
...West, Acheson thought, lay the hope of stopping Russian Communism. In his previous capacities at State he had done yeoman service in helping to prepare and win congressional approval of Lend-Lease, UNRRA, the World Bank, the Export-Import Bank and the Truman Doctrine. In a speech in the spring of 1947 he had outlined the ideas which George Marshall had taken up a month later, and which became the Marshall Plan. During the months immediately following Acheson's induction as Secretary, the West even held the momentary initiative. Acheson presided over the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty...