Word: achesonism
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...Galo Plaza said jubilantly, "Things are going in the right direction." He was also heartened by the imminent U.N. decision to continue the peacekeeping mission on Cyprus for another three months, and he cheerfully outlined his own strategy to newsmen. Unlike Tuomioja and U.S. Special Envoy Dean Acheson. Galo Plaza intends to do his mediating on Cyprus instead of in Geneva, and to concentrate on Makarios instead of on the governments of Turkey and Greece...
Even though the U.N. mediator, Finland's Sakari Tuomioja, suffered a stroke, negotiations in Geneva continued. Greek and Turkish representatives in Geneva pored over a plan, proposed by U.S. Special Envoy Dean Acheson, which apparently envisages a union of Cyprus with Greece (enosis), with special guarantees for the Turkish Cypriots and a permanent Turkish base on the island. Given suitable face-saving devices, Turkey and Greece might accept. The same old stumbling block is still Makarios, who was once a loud advocate of enosis but now seems to enjoy being head of a sovereign state...
...standards were so high that one-third of his students failed to win degrees. Those who did, including Dean Acheson, Thomas Corcoran and David E. Lilienthal, often plunged straight into writing New Deal legislation. Himself an early Roosevelt Republican, Pound later became disillusioned with executive pressure on the courts and supported the G.O.P.'s Alf Landon...
...essential power of the corporation is ownership of the university-buildings, endowment, everything fixed and movable that is Yale. L'université, c'est nous," joked former Corporation Member Dean Acheson. The corporation manages all finance and investment, must give recorded approval to each course of study, faculty appointment and degree. In practice, said Acheson, "we don't interfere with the running of the college. This would be the quickest way to louse things up." Instead, the corporation applies itself seriously to its key job, which is to pick the president of the university, and usually ratifies...
Only after they agree do Yale and the rest of the world hear about it-maybe. And, as Acheson put it, "we never give reasons for our decisions, merely the blunt fact of them. How vulnerable are those who explain-courts, statesmen, editors. We can say of our views, as Mr. Churchill did of his when challenged with inconsistency, 'My views are a harmonious process which keeps them in relation to the current movement of events...