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...York next week, Acheson will face an emergency meeting of the West's Big Three foreign ministers; he wanted tangible evidence to show the others that the U.S. intended to defend, not merely liberate, Western Europe in case of war. He needed something to spur Britain's Bevin and France's Schuman (see FOREIGN NEWS) into getting busy too. This is what Acheson proposed...
Behind closely guarded doors in a room set aside for the National Security Council, the argument went on. Acheson's blueprint originated in the State Department's planning and policy group, headed by Banker-Economist Paul Nitze. It had the backing of Foreign Affairs Adviser W. Averell Harriman and War Mobilizer W. Stuart Symington. After two days of shirtsleeved debate, it won the endorsement of the Chiefs of Staff of the three armed services-General J. Lawton Collins of the Army, General Hoyt S. Vandenberg of the Air Force, Admiral Forrest Sherman of the Navy...
Meanwhile, Dean Acheson had his message, too, and it also sprayed balm in the general direction of the Communist scalp. The Government is trying in all its words & deeds to make its peaceful intentions toward China clear to the Communist leaders, he told reporters. President Truman has said so, declared Acheson, and we are making it clear through the Voice of America and otherwise...
While Republican criticism of U.S. foreign policy broke over the head of Secretary of State Dean Acheson, in crushing waves, the one Administration official who seemed completely unconcerned was Defense Secretary Louis Johnson. He even appeared to enjoy the show. During a closed congressional hearing not long ago, Johnson had stared pointedly at a waiting State Department witness and cracked: "Is everyone here cleared for security?" But last week big, brash Louis Johnson was trying hard to answer some pointed questions himself...
...came from all quarters. Meeting in Chicago, the Veterans of Foreign Wars passed a resolution criticizing the State Department for its blunders, quickly passed another which took dead aim on Johnson's Department of Defense. One Republican advance man, returning from a tour through the Middle West, reported: "Acheson is catching most of the hell here in Washington, but don't think Johnson isn't getting it out in the states. He's just as hot as Acheson and either is enough to sink a Democrat right...