Word: achesons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Acting Secretary of State Dean Acheson, defending the Administration's policy, declared: "It may be that at some future time the United Nations will be organized and equipped so as to render emergency aid." The time, he intimated, was not now. "Even if some organ of the United Nations should decide to recommend assistance to Greece and Turkey, it would have eventually to turn primarily to the United States for funds and supplies and technical assistance. Even if the project were not blocked by the objections of certain members of the United Nations, much time would have been lost...
...Marshall was studying the German problem when the message came that Britain would be obliged to withdraw her support of Greece after March 31. He abandoned the German problem forthwith and turned his attention to the Mediterranean. He conferred for many anxious hours with Under Secretary of State Dean Acheson and General of the Army Dwight Eisenhower...
...decision they reached was largely a military, not a diplomatic one. Marshall took the decision to Harry Truman, who agreed with it and laid it before congressional leaders on Feb. 27. On the day Marshall left for Moscow, Clark Clifford, Truman's adviser and ghostwriter, began editing Marshall, Acheson and Eisenhower into shape. Clifford's draft was sent to Marshall, who made only a few revisions. That was the background of the statement. (Thus Henry Wallace's angry charge over the radio that Harry Truman had undermined his Secretary of State's assignment was obviously incorrect...
...Senators and Representatives, summoned by the President, left Capitol Hill one morning last week and went to the White House. The winter chill hung damp over Pennsylvania Avenue. Harry Truman met them in the Executive Office, where he was flanked by Secretary of State George Marshall, Under Secretary Dean Acheson and Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy. This was the first stirring of the wind...
Testifying at the Lilienthal hearings a fortnight ago, Under Secretary of State Dean Acheson made the thoroughly accurate judgment that "Russian foreign policy is an aggressive and expanding one." His frankness cocked a few U.S. ears; it set the Kremlin a-growl. Barked Comrade Molotov: "Inadmissible behavior. . . gross slander and hostile to the Soviet Union...