Word: achesons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gross Slander." Most Washington correspondents believed that Dean Acheson had been sincerely converted to a get-tough policy toward Russia. It was he who helped inspire, draft and put over the Greek-Turkish aid program. Before a Senate committee, Acheson charged: "Russian foreign policy is an aggressive and expanding one." Molotov protested that it was "gross slander ... inadmissible behavior . . . hostile," and was slapped down by George Marshall...
...month before George Marshall proposed the Marshall Plan at Harvard in June 1947, Acheson first outlined the basic doctrine in a speech at Cleveland, Miss. Before returning to private law practice in July, Acheson charged that Moscow was blocking "the whole course of recovery and the international pursuit of happiness'." He was denounced in Pravda for "a gross and rude slander...
Congressional leaders expected that Acheson would get Senate approval after a lot of talk but not too much trouble (the Senate had confirmed him as Under Secretary by a vote of 69 to 1). Said ranking Republican Committee Member Arthur H. Vandenberg: he is a man of "wide experience in foreign affairs ... I expect the committee will fully explore his viewpoints...
...junior partners in Acheson's law firm, Covington, Burling, Rublee, Acheson & Shorb...
Then Mr. Truman exploded a bomb in the State Department which would cause vibrations not only on the Hill, but around the capital and in all the capitals of the world. He announced the resignation of faithful, forceful George Catlett Marshall, and nominated as his successor Dean Gooderham Acheson...