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From former (1949-53) U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson, speaking last fortnight in Detroit and last week at the University of New Hampshire, came two forceful, well-argued statements on U.S. foreign policy...
Negotiation as an instrument of foreign policy is no longer the valuable accommodating technique it used to be. As Dean Acheson said last week in Durham, N.H., "... in the last twelve years, the international conference has ceased to be an instrument for ending conflict, and has become one for continuing it." The perils of an illusory evaluation of negotiation are greater today than the possible successes of diplomatic solutions. Acheson appears to be aware of these dangers, and in this he agrees with Secretary Dulles and with the NATO allies, who have drifted over to a cautious and skeptical position...
...large. Among Stokes's pinch hitters, who took over last week: Senators Margaret Chase Smith, William Knowland, Lyndon Johnson, John Kennedy, CIA Director Allen Dulles, Under Secretary of State Christian Herter, Army Chief of Staff Maxwell Taylor, Secretary of the Interior Fred Seaton, ex-Secretary of State Dean Acheson...
...Dwight Eisenhower, at dinner, kick off a bipartisan drive for a $3.9 billion foreign aid appropriation. In charge was the President's special foreign aid salesman, Eric Johnston. On hand were labor leaders and dowagers, bishops and Hollywood entertainers, the Democrats' Lyndon Johnson, Adlai Stevenson and Dean Acheson, the Republicans' Dick
...public feuding between Harry Truman's Secretary of State Dean Acheson and ex-Acheson State Department Planner George Kennan over Kennan's call for a neutral Germany (TIME, Jan. 20) reflects far more than a mere difference of political opinion. Acheson regards the strong Germany policy as his own-hammered out in the late 1940s over Kennan's opposition-and regards Kennan's attack more as a personal affront than an attack on Successor John Foster Dulles. Still silent in this Democratic debate over foreign policy fundamentals: Adlai Stevenson, who despite earlier, well-publicized intimations...