Word: achesonism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enforce total disarmament of a nation that had thrice in 70 years invaded its neighbors, but to re-educate Germans to hate militarism. The Com munist invasion of Korea changed all that. The danger that limited war could start in Europe, too, led U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson, in September 1950, to propose the rearmament of West Germans under NATO command. (The Communists had already organized their East Germans in paramilitary "police" units...
Only occasionally did he manage to get away to the relative quiet of his five-room suite in the old Senate Office Building. Late one afternoon, he padded through the mild Georgetown air to visit with Neighbor Dean Acheson-thus sparking rumors that Acheson would surely have a job in the new Administration. Kennedy breakfasted at home one morning with Foreign Policy Adviser Chester Bowles, who looked a little dour upon leaving-thus sparking rumors that he had not been offered the kind of job he had hoped for. Kennedy got a visit, too, from New Mexico's Democratic...
...dinner party in Washington last week, one of the town's most-often-asked questions popped up: Who will be Jack Kennedy's Secretary of State? One guest mentioned Adlai Stevenson as a possibility, drew a startlingly emphatic response from sometime (1949-53) Secretary of State Dean Acheson. "That," said Acheson, "would be disastrous...
...members of both Corporations are expected to attend the dinner, which will take place at the Pusey home. Among the guests will be A. Whitney Griswold, President of Yale, and Dean Acheson, former Secretary of State...
...home, the argument went on. Cried former Secretary of State Dean Acheson: "We seem to be drifting, either dazed or indifferent, toward war with China." Under Secretary of State Christian Herter claimed that the offshore islands were "not strategically defensible," labeled Chiang's preoccupation with Quemoy's fate "almost pathological." Into the State Department poured about 5,000 letters, 80% of them critical of Ike's policy. The President went on nationwide radio-TV, declared that the Quemoy attack was "part of an ambitious plan of armed conquest ... I assure you that no American boy will...