Word: achesonism
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Hadn't we better listen to a proven peacemaker (Eisenhower), rather than a proven failure (Acheson) in shaping our foreign policy in the Middle East? The best proof that Eisenhower's proposal accomplishes the desired ends is the anguished wail from behind the Iron Curtain...
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...followed the course advised by ex-Secretary of State Dean Acheson [TIME, Jan. 7], we would by now be involved in another Korea-our soldiers fighting Russian "volunteers" with the war confined to the soil of Egypt and Israel, of course...
...Thus confronted by crisis and a doctrine to ease it, the House Foreign Relations Committee last week opened hearings (see below) on the President's plan. Both Secretary of State Dulles and ex-Secretary of State Acheson propounded long-stored-up views and ran the gauntlet of the kind of serious, specific questions that Congress must and should ask. In a sense this was the kind of foreign-policy debate, unheard amid the oratory on the H-bombs and Joe Smiths of the 1956 campaign, that was long overdue. In an other sense, however...
...leadership post an absolute, unflinching integrity that rises above politics. It inspires faith in his motives and gives weight to his words. Says Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson: "Any time Bill Knowland tells you something, you can believe it." In 1949 Knowland voted against the confirmation of Dean Acheson as Secretary of State in the Truman Administration, and he was the leading Senate critic of Acheson's Far Eastern policies. But he did not hesitate to stand on the Senate floor and pay tribute to Acheson's handling of the Japanese peace treaty. When Harry Truman was subjected...