Word: achesonism
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...Bohlen collapsed. As suddenly as they had picked up the security charge in the midst of the Bohlen battle, the anti-Bohlen forces dropped it. They retreated to their original (and less marshy) ground: Bohlen should not be confirmed because he was a key man in the Roosevelt-Truman-Acheson foreign policy, and, in the Republican year, 1953, was still defending the Yalta agreement...
...restatement of U.S. foreign policy and defense policy. This restatement, in turn, is waiting on Pentagon "fact finders." who were asked two months ago to prepare a statement of present and future U.S. military capabilities. General Omar Bradley and his military experts, who underwrote most of the Truman-Acheson foreign policy, have not produced these estimates. Early this month, Bradley made a speech which paid more attention to reasons for not changing policies in Korea than to reasons for winning...
...Bohlen's confirmation as Ambassador to Russia were based on Bohlen's political background. New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy and Nevada's Pat McCarran said that they were against Bohlen because he was part & parcel of the Roosevelt-Truman-Acheson foreign policy. Last week the battleground suddenly shifted from policy to what Joe McCarthy called "security...
...Yalta, Bohlen served as interpreter and aide for Franklin Roosevelt. He sat with F.D.R. and Averell Harriman, facing Stalin, Molotov and their interpreter, Pavlov, when the secret agreement on Manchuria was finally worked out. He subsequently became Counselor of the State Department, working closely on policy with Secretary Dean Acheson...
...Hampshire's Styles Bridges let it be known that the withdrawal of Bohlen's name had been urged on "top" Eisenhower aides. "We had an election," said Bridges, "and the Acheson-Truman policies were repudiated. [Bohlen] is an architect and part of the team determining those policies. I don't see why we should send such a man to one of the most delicate spots in the world. We should have a man in whom we, including the Congress, have complete confidence...