Word: achesons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cold war that has yet to end. Last week three experienced diplomatic weathermen contributed to a growing debate on the subject. Secretary of State Christian A. Herter pledged the Eisenhower Administration to careful negotiation and something called "co-survival." President Truman's Secretary of State, Dean Acheson, warned against the perils of negotiation. And Mr. Cold War himself, Nikita Khrushchev, proclaimed that he is certainly a man of peace, turning out guided missiles by the hundreds...
...from sour. That being the case, the party position-staking last week was left to a Democrat who is not running for any office at all. And next year Democratic candidates may be claiming that they agreed all along with "that great Democratic ex-Secretary of State, Dean Acheson...
...Bonn for a privately organized German-American conference on East West tensions, Acheson fired the most critical shots to date against President Eisenhower for going even so far as to discuss the possibility of a Berlin settlement with Russia's Nikita Khrushchev. Said Acheson: "All the trouble in Berlin is caused by Mr. Khrushchev. The situation there could endure for the indefinite future. But he decided to upset the arrangement a year ago. I would tell Mr. Khrushchev that I would not discuss Berlin. Let's talk about other matters, but there is nothing to talk about there...
First to place Acheson's criticism in a political context were not Republicans, but the liberal Democratic New York Post. Taking editorial issue with a byline story by its own Washington correspondent, William V. Shannon, who described the U.S.-Russian talks as nothing more than "another form of dithering by a weak, cowardly, reactionary Administration," the Post said: "We believe the issues [Shannon] raises are especially important because his position is undoubtedly shared by a number of Democratic leaders-most conspicuously, Dean Acheson-who seem so sorely tempted to 'open up' on the President and even...
...negotiations with Khrushchev-the summit meeting, Eisenhower's visit to Russia, or whatever-should turn into trouble, or even into increased tension between the U.S.S.R. and the West, the position taken by Dean Acheson would become a valuable platform for a Democrat to stand...