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...Secretary of State Dean Acheson who turned their heads. The main battleground, he argued, is not in Asia, where the shooting is, but in Europe, where the balance of world power is. And in its present state of unreadiness, Western Europe could be overrun any time Russia decided to march her gigantic land army westward...
...under Harry Truman's nose. That morning, Acheson, Louis Johnson and an assortment of advisers and high brass gathered in the President's office with their mixed emotions. Mr. Truman reacted with growing choler. The meeting grimly discussed the matter, and the President and Secretary Acheson discussed it again in the afternoon...
...Withdraw." Acheson argued: a statement on U.S. policy in the Pacific was beyond MacArthur's authority, and furthermore MacArthur was full of hot air. The U.S. had not held Formosa during World War II, Acheson argued,* and the U.S. had not been forced then to fall back on the Golden Gate. But primarily, Acheson deplored the timing. At that very moment, he reminded the group, the State Department was trying to get the United Nations, despite Malik, to adopt the neutralizing of Formosa as U.N.'s own formal policy. Warren Austin appeared to be making some progress along...
...Labor Secretary Maurice Tobin, who was speaking on the same bill with Matthews, solemnly assured reporters that "Secretary Matthews speaks as the official representative of President Truman," it was soon clear that he did not. Next morning, there were hurried consultations at the White House between Harry Truman, Dean Acheson and Louis Johnson. State was worried; Matthews' ill-considered remarks would be picked up by Moscow to prove to the world what the Communists had said all along: Americans were warmongers itching to start World War III. With Harry Truman's approval, the State Department released a terse...
Military men and politicians had known all along that plans for Western Europe's defense made no sense unless they included a West German army. By last week Winston Churchill, Dean Acheson, U.S. High Commissioner John McCloy and German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer had publicly indicated that some degree of German rearmament was in the cards. But despite all these wisps of smoke, there was no fire...