Word: achesonism
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Republicans thought they were getting the better of this argument over Stevenson's testimony in the Hiss case. In a weekend speech, Nixon summed up the G.O.P. case: "Mr. Stevenson has never expressed one word of indignation at Alger Hiss's treachery. Like Dean Acheson, he says he does not question the legal verdict. But, also like Acheson, to this day he has not 'turned his back on Alger Hiss...
...very qualities that make some of his countrymen distrust Dean Acheson and his policies were just what were needed to make him a success at U.N. last week. He set out to convince the doubters, the neutralists, the holdbacks and the timid in the General Assembly on the Tightness of the U.S.-and U.N.-action in Korea. To diplomats nagged by the conviction that Americans are illogical, explosive, and unreasoningly bellicose, the U.S. Secretary of State spoke for nearly three hours from a lawyer's brief that was well prepared and delivered in aloof and detached fashion. Speaking...
Pretty Good Doctrine. The U.S., he said, did not want to keep its Korean and Chinese war prisoners. It polled them at the Reds' request and was dismayed to learn that 30% were afraid to go home. Now, said Acheson. the U.S. is stuck with the problem; it could not agree to send men home against their will to what may be death. Acheson recounted five separate unsuccessful attempts to persuade the Reds to let some neutral agency resurvey the prisoners' desires...
...cited 17 separate post-World War I treaties in which the Soviets had explicitly agreed that there should be no forced repatriation of prisoners. "Pretty good doctrine," Acheson murmured; why weren't they for it now? Then the U.S. Secretary of State formally called on the committee to uphold the U.N. negotiators at Panmunjom and to reaffirm their stand against forcible repatriation...
...During my tenure 1 made at least half a dozen recommendations, all of which were either ignored or flatly turned down by our Government, under British influence and insistence. I think this tragedy can be laid at the feet of Mr. Acheson...