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...SOMEONE who used to be Dean Acheson's roommate, Cole Porter has come a long way. In the Grand tradition of hula hoops, the Twist, and Batman, he has become a raging American fad, and, although the Porter fad will probably wear out its welcome with the great American populace as quickly as its predecessors, we may as well drink the wine while we have it, Nunc est bibendum...
...Against this backdrop, America's progressive involvement went through several very separate stages. First Washington acquiesced in the French return to Indochina and then financed the French war there largely for reasons that had nothing to do with Asia but rather, as Mr. Acheson and others have revealed, as the price required to win French participation in West European defense arrangements. (By 1954 that price totalled $4 billion.) But with the Communist victory in China. Washington developed a second rationale, namely, resistance to what was wrongly perceived as monolithic international communism: Peking and Hanoi as mere creations and puppets...
Again some reflection might have saved Mr. Jago from the inanity he wrote on the expression 'being present at the creation.' A reader endowed with some intelligence would have been saved the embarrassing illiteracy he exhibited. The reference was, of course, to Dean Acheson's book: Present at the Creation. As I explicitly stated to the interviewer, one felt in China that one was literally present at the creation of a new society and more presently than Acheson had in mind when that "Commissar of the Cold War"--in Ronald Steel's happy phrase--described, under that title, his role...
...President and Mrs. Nixon gave a white-tie dinner for 100 in the State Dining Room of the White House. The guests of honor were the Digest's formidable founders and cochairmen, DeWitt Wallace and his wife Lila, both 82. Wallace, son of a Presbyterian minister, married Lila Acheson some months before publication of the first issue, which they launched with $1,800. Now, 50 years later, DeWitt and Lila Wallace are probably still the most unforgettable characters either of them has ever...
...late Dean Acheson, an old cold warrior, disdained summitry; he found "the experience nerve-racking and the results unsatisfactory." Since Nixon is now concerned more with what Washington's foreign affairs experts call "atmospherics" than with substance, he stands a good chance to do better than Acheson might have predicted...