Word: achesonism
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...China fiasco is now history. But, have Acheson, Truman, and now Stevenson considered the difference in distance between Siberia and Alaska, compared to the distance between Europe and the U.S.A...
When Kennan arrived in Moscow, he was shocked by a violent "hate-America" campaign in the Russian press, and said so in his reports to Acheson. That Expert Kennan should have been surprised was surprising, for the campaign had gone on for 18 months before his arrival in Moscow, and had been reported by the U.S. press and by U.S. Government experts...
...Dean Acheson angrily told his audience in the pressroom that it was Russia itself which had broken the "norms" by its long-standing campaign of vituperation against the U.S.* Nevertheless, there was no choice: Kennan would be called home for "consultation." A new Ambassador to Moscow will probably not be appointed till next year...
...Went to Moscow. Kennan was appointed Ambassador to Moscow last February because Secretary of State Dean Acheson and his top advisers, notably Kennan himself, had become persuaded that there might be a chance for a new and better phase in U.S.-Russian relations. Kennan, who served in Russia before (1933-37, 1944-46) and speaks the language fluently, seemed to be the man to make the most of a chance for negotiations, should it come. Just why Acheson and Kennan thought that the Russians were about ready for a settlement is not clear: there was no concrete evidence. Senior State...
...Coming Home. Kennan, who favored keeping the channels open for negotiation with Russia, found the channels plugged: he got virtually no chance to talk privately to any Russian officials. Early last month, Acheson seemed to give up hope that his original hunch was right. In a Kansas City speech, he said that the Soviet hate campaign "contradicts [Russian] pretensions of peace and pushes off still further a beginning upon the peaceful settlement by negotiation of problems between the Soviet Union and the outside world." When they heard that passage in Acheson's speech, some Washington hands predicted that Kennan...