Word: achesons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Official Share. Though an authoritative U.S. voice was absent from the rally, Washington was not long chiming in with a "me, too." Within two days, a reporter primed Acting Secretary of State Dean Acheson with a casual question: just what is the American attitude toward Spain, anyhow...
...surprised that you do not know what our position on it is," replied Acheson. The policy, he said, was stated in a letter written seven months ago by Franklin Roosevelt to Norman Armour upon his departure for Madrid as Ambassador to Spain. The letter, in fact, could now be released for publication. In no more than 15 minutes, mimeographed copies of the letter were ready for reporters...
...press. Before he cleared the air, he had set the State and War Departments by the ears with an offhand announcement that he would soon need only 200,000 troops in Japan (he had previously estimated 500,000, then 400,000). State's overly sensitive Acting Secretary Dean Acheson tartly announced that policy was being made in Washington, not in Tokyo. Much of the U.S. press and many a citizen jumped to the unwarranted conclusion that MacArthur was for a quick & easy occupation...
MacArthur's own account dispelled this impression and gave Acheson his comeuppance. Among other things, MacArthur carefully limited his endorsement of the Emperor to the period of "surrender and demobilization"-the first official indication that Hirohito's days in the Imperial Palace might be numbered (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...Under Secretary Dean G. Acheson of Groton and Yale, an impeccable lawyer, a man with an elastic mind, a political middle-of-the-roader. Next comes Counselor Ben Cohen, of the University of Chicago and Harvard, a thinker, a man of strong ideology (New Deal), a shy, unobtrusive worker who looks and acts more like a gentle professor than a man who has drafted most of the important new laws of the last decade...