Word: achesonism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Former Secretary of State Dean Acheson has just spent three days at Eliot House, visiting Master Finley and, not incidentally, speaking at a dinner in the House Tuesday evening. Having recently returned from a European tour "visiting old friends and trying to settle a boundary dispute in the Hague," Mr. Acheson now plans to return to Washington--"where I live, you know...
...Acheson, because he has an uncommon bearing, a moustache, and a non-Kennedy New England accent, has been constantly accused of resembling the Ealing Studios prototype of the British Foreign Officer. He does in fact look like a statesman and is a flawlessly articulate...
...Acheson describes his situation of invisible responsibility as "the middle ground," because, although not in an official capacity, "when I talk with Adenauer and De Gaulle I can be responsible--they ask me the questions I know something about and I answer them." "Although," remarked Acheson, "the temptation to tease the Chancellor is very great. I have known Adenauer for twelve years now; he tells me I am not as young as I used to be. I have just seen him; he took me to his beautiful old house on the Rhine which he bought for his retirement...
...NATO ALLIANCE. Kennedy and Macmillan agreed that NATO's military, political and economic joints are creaking badly. Kennedy summoned former Secretary of State Dean Acheson, who had just completed a study of NATO, to present tentative U.S. views. In the conversations that followed, the President urged that NATO's European members place a high priority on building up NATO's conventional military forces. The U.S., he said, is willing to provide NATO with nuclear capability, probably in the form of Polaris submarines and medium-range ballistic missiles-but nuclear fire control must remain in U.S. hands. Macmillan...
...brilliant career in State. In 1948 he was prime mover of the group that took the general ideas of Secretary George Marshall and whipped them into the practical program that became the Marshall Plan. In 1950, as director of State's Policy Planning Staff in the Dean Acheson regime, he was calling for a buildup of U.S. military strength months before war came in Korea. During the Eisenhower Administration. Nitze stayed on in Washington as president of the Foreign Service Educational Foundation and as an outspoken critic of the Eisenhower-Dulles doctrine of massive retaliation, fed ideas on limited...