Word: achesons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Freedom. Next day Secretary of State Dean Acheson tried to explain to his press conference just what the official U.S. position was. In a long and ambiguously worded statement he implied that the U.S. was largely deferring to the attitude of Western Europe. "The fact of the matter was," he declared, "that a government was established in Spain which was patterned on the regimes in Italy and in Germany and was, and is, a Fascist government and dictatorship . . ." Point by point, he ticked off the Western democracies' indictment of the Franco regime. It denied the writ of habeas corpus...
...author of this editorial hopes that Secretary of State Acheson will be unsuccessful in obtaining an arms program to accompany the North Atlantic Pact. His points...
...Less Freely." It was a blunt question and, by diplomatic standards, it got a blunt, affirmative answer. Replied Acheson: "There is something in this treaty that requires every member of the Senate, if you ratify it, when he comes to vote on military assistance, to exercise his judgment less freely than he would have exercised it if there had not been this treaty...
...something" that Acheson referred to was Article 3 of the treaty, which commits all members to "selfhelp" and "mutual aid." Once the Senate approved the North Atlantic Treaty, said Acheson, it could not consistently repudiate the treaty's commitment to assist Western Europe with arms, but it could reserve the right to determine how much aid the U.S. should provide. The arms program, said Acheson, would be only one-sixth to one-seventh of what the treaty nations would provide for themselves...
...ranking Republican Arthur Vandenberg might have preferred a little less candor from the Secretary of State. Many a Senate fence-straddler, like Virginia's Harry F. Byrd, was willing to buy the pact if he could dodge paying the arms bill later. Pussyfooting Tom Connally thought Acheson went "a little too far," in his answer; a Senator's only voting guide was his "conviction and conscience." Vandenberg was afraid the Senate was getting its "eyes glued on a few million dollars' worth of rifles and knapsacks" instead of the treaty itself...