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...Present at the Creation, Acheson...
PRESENT AT THE CREATION by Dean Acheson. 798 pages. W. W. Norton. $12.50 to Dec. 31, then...
Twenty years ago, only a Metternich might have appreciated Dean Acheson, that rarest of all Americans, the model diplomat. Excessively sharp of mind and tongue-and not at all afraid to show the biting edge of either-Acheson was not destined for public popularity as Harry Truman's Secretary of State, particularly in an era when careers could be smashed overnight by little more than whispered innuendoes of "Communist" or "leftwing" sympathies. Present confusions and elapsed time, however, have created new perspectives on the diplomatic problems and achievements of the Truman Administration...
When the guns grew silent in 1945, much of the world had been torn apart. "Only slowly did it dawn upon us," writes Acheson in this, the second volume of his memoirs (1941-1953), "that the whole world structure and order that we had inherited from the nineteenth century was gone and that the struggle to replace it would be directed from two bitterly opposed and ideologically irreconcilable power centers." The title of the book is thus not a rhetorical fancy. As Under Secretary (1945-1947) and later Secretary of State (1949-1953), he was present at the creation...
...NEWS HOUR (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). In cities with elections, results will be reported. Other cities will see "A Conversation with Dean Acheson - Part 2," with CBS News Correspondent Eric Sevareid...