Word: achesons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hailed before a Senate committee to elaborate on the "Truman Doctrine" was Acting Secretary of State Acheson, who earlier had characterized Russian foreign policy...
...swallowed with a hard gulp. Into it went ideas of Mundt's own: 1) a rigid FBI check on the loyalty of OIC employees; 2) a specific provision that no aliens should be employed unless no qualified U.S. citizens are available. He summoned Under Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Assistant Secretary of State William Benton, U.S. Ambassador to Russia Walter Bedell Smith and finally Secretary of State Marshall to testify. With one voice, they said that it was "folly" to spend millions for foreign aid and relief without explaining U.S. aims. Said Secretary Marshall: "We have no idea...
...Administration warily hinted at a further expansion of its foreign policy. Secretary of State Marshall wrote: "Enduring political harmony rests heavily upon economic stability." Under Secretary Dean Acheson,* speaking in Cleveland, Miss., was a little more obvious. Said Acheson: "When Secretary Marshall returned from Moscow he did not talk to us about ideologies or armies. He talked about food and fuel and their relation to industrial production ... to the peace of the world. . . . The facts of international life mean that the U.S. is going to have to undertake further emergency financing...
What Marshall and Acheson meant was that the pressing struggle between communism and Western Democracy was not on a military plane or even (except as a means to an end) on an ideological level. It was a struggle between the U.S. and economic anarchy-a war which the U.S. must wage with food and fuel. On the outcome of that struggle depended the survival of the democratic world and the world's future. It was not only the world's prime ministers and premiers who turned to the U.S. The young turned their pinched and inquiring faces westward...
Marshall and Acheson meant that such token payments as aid to Greece and Turkey were only the beginning. But how far would the U.S. have to go, if it seriously intended to carry out the Truman Doctrine? What was the present invoice on the doctrine, and what did Acheson mean by "further emergency financing...