Word: achesonism
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Foreign Service Officers, who under Acheson were made to feel that their chief was ready to come to their defense if they were attacked, have seen Dulles shy away from any contact with John Paton Davies or John Service, when these two men were placed on the sacrificial altar of anti-Communism. Men away from Washington were horrified by the State Department's cowardice in the Ladejinsky affair. Although these incidents did not necessarily demand the approach which Acheson took towards the accusations against Alger Hiss and Owen Lattimore, the lack of any outright defense of the State Department against...
...would ex-Secretary of State Dean Acheson have handled the Suez crisis? He is much too discreet to say publicly, but privately he has been telling his Washington law associates and fellow guests at Georgetown cocktail parties that the Eisenhower Administration was all wrong on Suez. Acheson believes that "fumbling" by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles estranged the British and led them to their decision not to advise the U.S. of their plan to attack Egypt with the French and Israelis. Acheson does not necessarily approve the attack on Egypt, but thinks that once it was begun...
Thomas, who has frequently criticized the Administration's foreign policy, urged support of "Eisenhower's effort to use the U.N. as the world's main hope of avoiding World War III." He blamed Truman and Acheson for "failure to turn truce into peace before Russia [could achieve the] strength to interfere so ominously in the Middle East." Concluded Thomas: "The President, however, and the American people, who must deal with things as they now are, can only be hurt by the kind of pontificating [exemplified by] the Alsop effort...
...Winthrop fumble presented Dunster two scoring opportunities in the third period, but the Funsters were not able to take advantage of them. Dunster warmed up its passing attack in the last half, with Bill Banks and Don Acheson completing several long aerials...
...what was in his mind a trial basis. He was appointed Senior Tutor of Winthrop House in 1951, where he and his wife Mary lived until his elevation to the Deanship in 1953. During this period he wrote several foreign policy articles and edited a documentary record of Dean Acheson's utterances and strung them together with descriptive tissue...