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Pusey will be the guest of honor at a banquet of the Yale University Council at the New Haven Lawn Club on Friday, November 20. Banquet speakers will include Griswold, Judge Charles E. Wyzanski '27, president of the Board of Overseers and former Secretary of State Dean Acheson, a Fellow of the Yale Corporation. Frank D. Ashburn, headmaster of the Brooks School and president of the Yale University Council, will preside at the banquet...
Dulles' record of accomplishment was not a result of skill as a diplomatic negotiator. As the unsurpassed technician of the conference table, Acheson's performance was far smoother, and Dulles gave his predecessor full marks for good intention and did not claim that his own desire for such laudable goals as peace was any greater than Acheson's. But there is more to getting a peace than wanting it, more to working toward decisions than suavity and adroitness at the conference table. A statesman who wants peace has to find specific policies which will lead his adversary...
...folklore of Washington, the man who manages the operational functions of an organization will mold its policy in the long run. This has come to be an accepted law of administrative life, as solid as Newton's laws of motion. Consequently, career State Department officials respected Dean Acheson's concern with operational details. They could not at first understand John Foster Dulles, the broad-picture man, who believed that the State Department had been distracted from its policymaking job by its preoccupation with miscellaneous operating functions-foreign aid, technical aid, propaganda, etc. When Dulles, soon after he took...
...Dulles also followed the broad-picture approach in his campaign to restore confidence in the State Department. Foreign policy, he argued, must not only be concrete enough to work, it must also be coherent enough for the people to understand. In his congressional relations, he was careful to avoid Acheson's chief personality defect--contempt for the ignorant. During his first seven months in office Dulles gut in 32 appearances before congressional committees, held 58 unofficial meetings with congressional groups...
...retreat, even if he wanted to. As a whole, the U.S. people make their basic political judgments on moral grounds. All U.S. leaders recognize this fact and describe the struggle with Communism in moral terms. There are two ways in which Dulles, on this point, differs from Truman and Acheson: 1) he is clearer about it, and 2) his practical policies reflect the greater clarity...