Word: achesons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President closeted himself in the White House for a conference with State Department officials on the Far East, the Shah was whirled off through a busy schedule of sightseeing, wreath-laying and conferences at Mount Vernon, Annapolis and the Pentagon, a formal dinner with Secretary of Slate Dean Acheson. At a luncheon given by the Overseas Writers, the Shah, who learned English in school in Switzerland, struck just the right note by announcing: "You are all, I am told, what is called 'working' newspapermen. I work, too. I can be described, I hope, as a 'working" monarch...
That was all the State Department knew about the humiliating status of the diplomat and four consulate colleagues jailed with him (TIME, Nov. 21). Angrily, President Truman called the whole affair an outrage. Secretary of State Dean Acheson said that the U.S. would not even consider recognition of Communist China until it released the prisoners and offered assurances that the 2,500 other Americans stranded in China would be safe...
George N. Craig, National Commander of the American Legion, hotly demanded that the U.S. send troops to rescue Ward and his companions if the Chinese Communists do not release him. The remedy involved not only risking Ward's life, but war. This week Dean Acheson appealed to 30 nations, including Russia, to protest the conduct of the Chinese Communists...
From Paris, Frankfurt, Bonn and Berlin, Secretary of State Dean Acheson returned last week to Washington, tired but cheerful. In the group which gathered at the airport to meet him were Mrs. Acheson and Harry Truman. Said the beaming President to the Secretary: "You have done an excellent job." Then Acheson kissed his wife and drove off to report to the President in detail on the conference of U.S., British and French Foreign Ministers in Paris (TIME...
...Both Acheson and Schuman deny that the subject of a German army was discussed, but while Schuman says rearmament is not even envisioned, Acheson refused to deny that he favors such a move...