Word: achesonism
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...Acheson's Shoes." A deep-seated misgiving about U.S. Asian policy is spreading among anti-Communists in Southeast Asia, who fear that the Korean truce is the first sign of U.S. withdrawal. In Hong Kong, anti-Communist Chinese newspapers, even those critical of Chiang, now talk about "U.S. double-faced diplomacy." One said that "Ike and Dulles have stepped right into Acheson's shoes." Though Secretary Dulles has bulled through a special $387 million grant to bolster anti-Communist resistance in Indo-China, Frenchmen frequently grumble: Why should we fight our Communists to a finish when...
...that he did not mean, Mitchell got very close to the heart of the long and obscure fight over subversion in government. Men like Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman and Dean Acheson knew they were loyal to the U.S.-and they knew that 99% of the people knew they were. When charged with softness toward Communism, or overconfidence in Stalin's word, or blindness to Communist infiltration of the Government, they often reacted as if their patriotism, not their judgment, had been challenged. On a month-to-month basis, this reaction was good politics. But long range, it kept...
...Hathaway shirt peered through his one good eye and said, "It takes me twice as long to read the Digest, but it's worth the time." A column, "Inside," scoffed at Newsweek's periscope ("Fewer erasers are being used by the State Department under Dulles than under Acheson. Employees, fiercely loyal to the new Administration, have cut down on mistakes...
...meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers in Moscow. Chambers named Glasser as the Soviet agent assigned to "control" White and make him turn over to the Communists "everything of importance that came into his hands." Glasser resigned from Treasury in December 1947, was recommended by Dean Acheson and Treasury Secretary John Snyder for a place as economist with the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds in New York. He left this job, after refusing to testify as to Communist espionage...
...U.S.British conflict. Often it has been the result of division and indecision inside the U.S. Government. But as the U.S. position under Eisenhower and Dulles became clearer and more consistent, it was bound to come into conflict with "neutralist" sentiment among the allies. In the last year of Truman-Acheson, the U.S.-British divergence was growing. It has become sharper...