Word: achesons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people, as for its State Department, this was a moment of rare anguish; an autopsy on a friend is not nice work. With such diplomatic surgery, Secretary of State Dean Acheson (and the staff of 80 who had worked on the white paper) had operated on the prostrate body of Nationalist China. Their task was complicated by the fact that the body was still stubbornly squirming with life...
...Every bullet, every item, has been planned because of a particular need for this somewhere. If you cut it, you will not achieve some vital purpose." So Secretary of State Dean Acheson told the House Foreign Affairs Committee last week in his precise and impressive manner...
Lacking any current evidence of Russian marauding, the Administration was doing its considerable best to imbue its $1,450,000,000 military-aid progam with an air of urgency and inviolability. Said Acheson : "The Soviet Union today maintains the largest peacetime military force in the history of the world . . . The combination of ... a huge aggressive force on one side and admittedly inadequate defense forces on the other has created a morbid and pervasive sense of insecurity in Western Europe. The fear is justified. The danger is real, however much some may try to argue it out of existence...
...Acheson insisted that the bill contained "the minimum amount required" to equip "the very modest forces" which Europe had on hand. The U.S. was not arming Europe to resist an all-out attack: "What is required is rather sufficient strength to make it impossible for an aggressor to achieve a quick and easy victory...
Hard Core. To bolster Acheson, the U.S.'s highest brass marched up to Capitol Hill. Army Chief of Staff Omar Bradley, flanked by the Navy's Admiral Denfeld and the Air Force's General Hoyt Vandenberg, spoke for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Said Missouri-born Omar Bradley, whose vivid prose is the match of Acheson's: "We can surely anticipate that any aggressor will alternatively press and quell the crises, hoping to hold the [North Atlantic Treaty] powers in perpetual irresolution. But irresolution has no apology. It is born of fear and selfishness...