Word: achesons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Secretary of State Dean Acheson returned from Europe pleased but not complacent. In Paris, the West had held its own against Russian diplomacy. Acheson came home to find the other side of the world-Asia-in need of quick attention...
...airport, reporting on the Paris meeting, Acheson greeted the President soberly: "I'm afraid we didn't accomplish too much." At his press conference two days later he went into more detail. A newsman asked: "Was the conference a failure or a success?" The Secretary of State replied sharply: "Why do we have to take a dichotomy and say it is a success or a failure?" Big Four parleys, he explained in his precise way, are no longer enough in themselves to achieve striking changes or to create new crises. Like steam gauges which indicate how much pressure...
...Congress could make sure of that pleasing change of affairs, said Acheson, by ratifying the North Atlantic pact, and by passing the $1,130,000,000 arms program to back it up, before adjourning. But Dean Acheson also knew that there was another explanation of Russia's seeming docility in Europe. The Russian bear had his mind on other game...
Message from Molotov. The visiting Foreign Ministers sighed with relief and started packing. Dean Acheson was in his office when an aide brought in a slip of paper. Acheson read the note and burst out laughing. It was a message from Andrei Vishinsky, who had himself just received a message from Molotov in Moscow, requesting that the final communique on the conference be held up and that the Ministers convene once more...
...Acheson's proposition: 1) citywide free elections for a provisional Berlin government; 2) re-establishment of the four-power Kommandatura with each nation's veto power restricted to security matters only. When Acheson suggested that the ministers talk about it behind closed doors, Vishinsky agreed...