Word: achesons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Michigan's Arthur H. Vandenberg rose in the Senate last week to plead for the confirmation of Dean Acheson as Secretary of State. What made it news was not his support of Acheson, for the Republican champion of the bipartisan foreign policy had often carried the ball for the Democrats, but the qualification he attached to his support. Said Vandenberg...
Then the committee voted unanimously to confirm Dean Acheson's nomination. Some time this week the full Senate would pass on Acheson's appointment. Few thought that it would take long...
...days later Acheson appeared before U.S. Senators. Even though he gave a clear impression that there would be no change in U.S. policy, Le Monde of Paris saw fit to comment in general: ". . . The symptoms of a new situation are appearing...
...series of recent statements and events in the U.S., especially Truman's appointment of Dean Acheson as Secretary of State, led Western Europeans to assume that U.S. policy toward Russia would become softer. The assumption was wispy; nobody knew whether U.S. policy would soften or not. But the European reaction to the assumption was real. Much of the recent stiffness went out of the man-on-the-street's backbone...
While Cachin had been speaking, the Moscow radio was broadcasting that "the nomination of Acheson offers the possibility of a reorientation of American foreign policy," and the Moscow press was playing up an appeal for a Truman-Stalin meeting...