Word: achesonism
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...your cover of Oct. 6: Instead of Malenkov sitting in Stalin's lap, wouldn't it be more effective to have Uncle Joe with Truman on one knee and Acheson on the other? Acheson, of course, to be on Stalin's left knee, next to his heart...
...believes it is "absurd" that there should be any charge that Truman and Acheson have been "soft on Communism." In fact, he continued, "They have welded together an extraordinary anti-Communist coalition and in Korea gave the world its first sample of working collective security...
...Nationalist China and for the outbreak of the Korean war strikes me as rather misplaced. In my opinion; it is fantastic to place any major share of the responsibility for the disintegration of Chiang's regime and the take-over by the Communists on the shoulders of Truman and Acheson...
...policies have been too risky, and that they have more to gain by honey than by vinegar . . . We must not be deluded by Soviet attempts to re-establish the united front. But I do see a chance of long-run improvement." (A few days before, Secretary of State Dean Acheson expressed a similarly optimistic opinion despite the recent setbacks to his hopes marked by the barring of Ambassador George Kennan from Moscow...
...When the text of Stalin's statement became available (several days before the Acheson and Stevenson pronouncements), it was found to contain the usual violent attacks on the U.S., plus a call to America's allies to desert...