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...Beneath Comment." Wherry turned bright red. He had voted for aid to Korea and China, he shouted.* "It does not matter whether I did or not," said Wherry. "The blood of our boys is on Secretary Acheson's shoulders, and on nobody else...
Next day an angry Harry Truman snapped that this was "a contemptible statement and beneath comment," and the reporters could quote him. Wherry snapped right back: "The President's failure to remove Acheson, after repudiation of his stupid foreign policies, is contemptible...
...Equality. In the discussions next month between Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin and Secretary of State Dean Acheson in Washington the U.S. will continue to reject the British viewpoint. But the U.S. itself, unless it changes its own line again, will defend a position that is also based on inconsistency. The U.S. Government, though it is pledged to the defense of Formosa, is still unwilling to work in anything like partnership with the Nationalist government on Formosa, and never misses a chance to make the point clear, even though an assault by the Reds would make partnership an absolute necessity. Furthermore...
...headquarters in Foggy Bottom has gotten around to suggesting to Britain that it might be time to quit acting like an unwanted butler and to deal with the Reds as at least an equal. So far as is known, no one has ever gotten around to suggesting to Dean Acheson that the U.S. itself, if it is really facing the possibility of a fight with Formosa's Nationalists at its side, had better start treating Chiang Kaishek's forces as equals...
Ready for Responsibility. A lot of careful people, including Dean Acheson, would object to such measures because, among other reasons, they might "provoke" Communist China. It was true that the U.S. must guard against taking on more than it can handle; but it was time for the U.S. to stop being overly scared of Mao Tse-tung. The U.S. had good reason for not wanting to tangle with Red China; but Red China, faced with huge economic problems and internal dissension, had equally good reason for not wanting to tangle with...