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Intimidation Threatened. Last week the Democrats, willing to take such guilt by association no longer, rolled up their biggest gun to shoot down Pundit Kennan. The big gun: Dean Gooderham Acheson, 64, Harry Truman's Secretary of State (1949-52) and Kennan's old boss, who in 1949 signed the NATO Treaty. Said Acheson in a special statement to the American Council on Germany, Inc.: "These opinions are not now made by Mr. Kennan for the first time. They were expounded by him within the Democratic Administration early in 1949, and rejected. They are today contrary...
...neutralized Europe next door to Soviet land power, said Acheson, would be incapable of 1) building up confidence and economic health or 2) fending off Russian conquest by infiltration. "In many, perhaps most cases, an attack by Soviet forces faced with only token resistance would not be necessary, as it was not in Czechoslovakia in 1948 or in Poland today. Soviet purposes could be accomplished by intimidation, with the lesson of Hungary in everyone's mind. Can one doubt that, were it not for the American connection, there would be no more independent life in Western Europe than there...
Died. Barclay Acheson, 70, longtime (1942-57) executive director and chairman (since last month) of the 27 Reader's Digest international editions (an estimated 9,000,000 circulation in 13 languages); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Briarcliff Manor...
...third lecture, Acheson set down three rules on which to base our conduct towards our allies. Unifying loyalty and candid discussion as a precedent to common action, he said, are two essentials of a strong coalition. The third rule, he concluded, is never to join forces with the enemy of another ally. He charged that the Administration had broken all of these precepts in its conduct of the Suez crisis...
...Acheson also stated that we must not allow "Nehru's and Krishna Menon's talent for annoyance" to blind us to the importance of India. Commenting that their most "trying statements" were for domestic consumption, he supported a plan of "capital assistance on a loan basis." He further suggested that in Asia generally we "use imports of food to help countries through the agricultural stage by freeing farmers for industrial work...