Word: achesons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Secretary of State Acheson is pushing hard for an arms program to accompany his North Atlantic Pact. The hearings on the treaty will probably last until mid-May, with the vote on the arms program itself coming up around June. Until then Mr. Acheson should be in for a long fight. We hope he is unsuccessful...
...replace punctilious career diplomat Jefferson Caffery, 63, as ambassador to France, Truman and Secretary of State Dean Acheson wanted a man who was enough of an economist to keep abreast of French financial crises, enough of a diplomat to help Western Europe toward unity. For this job Truman picked David K. E. Bruce, chief of the Economic Cooperation Administration mission in France, a lawyer and Virginia gentleman farmer. Bruce learned economics managing Mellon interests (his first wife was Andy Mellon's only daughter, Ailsa), later took a postgraduate course as Assistant Secretary of Commerce. To succeed Bruce...
...dentist, the Administration finally broke down under demands from Capitol Hill last week and put a first-year price tag on the arms to accompany the North Atlantic Treaty. It wasn't as bad as predicted, after all. For the coming fiscal year, Dean Acheson told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the U.S. planned to provide the treaty nations of Western Europe with $1.13 billion worth of military supplies (plus an additional $320 million primarily for Greece and Turkey). Perhaps half the equipment would come from U.S. war surplus arsenals, so the actual cash outlay would be much less...
...four hours behind closed doors in the committee's gloomy Capitol committee room, Secretary of State Dean Acheson and Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson answered some questions, left more unanswered. Western Europe would get no immediate boost in its military strength: the first year's supplies would simply reinforce established divisions, chiefly with light equipment. But what would the future cost be? Nobody knew. Which nations would get how much? That was up to the discretion of the President and not the countries involved. Significantly, it would be the Secretary of State and not the Secretary of Defense...
...disappoint them. He had high praise for previous cooperation between the U.S. and Latin America in joint cultural, educational and health projects. When he came to the future, he dotted no i's, crossed no t's, but he did make a firm commitment. Said Acheson: "Almost every kind of project contemplated in the worldwide program [of help to undeveloped areas] has been developed and tested in cooperative [InterAmerican] programs . . . Present plans include a substantial expansion of these joint activities in this hemisphere...