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Does he need a refresher course in anatomy, or has Scripps-Howard's Talburt confirmed my direst suspicion that Secretary Acheson does have two left hands...
...Dean Acheson, mustache bristling with indignation, strode into the State Department pressroom one day last week. Correspondents, scrambling to their feet at the unusual visitation, did not have to ask the reason. The Secretary of State had news: Moscow had just asked the U.S. to recall Ambassador to Russia George F. Kennan...
Explaining the appeal of men like Stevenson, Parsons pointed out that there seems to be a tendency for a fairly high proportion of wealthy and cultured people to move toward the political left. He cited Roosevelt, Stetinnius, Acheson, and Harriman--all of whom belong to what he called the "cultivated circle"--as examples of this...
Indignantly, Stevenson echoed a complaint by Dean Acheson that Ike had unfairly accused the Secretary of State of "writing off" Korea in a 1950 speech. "I am frankly astonished that my opponent stooped ... to the practice of lifting remarks out of context'. . . Why did he skip the Secretary's further pledge that if there should be an attack on these countries, 'the initial reliance must be on the people attacked to resist it and then upon the commitments of the entire civilized world under the Charter of the United Nations'?" Far from "writing off" Korea, said...
Justice Douglas may have waked up, but not U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson. Reports from Formosa last week said that U.S. military authorities there have urged Washington to allow the use of two of Chiang's excellently trained divisions in Korea. As it has done again & again in the past when this suggestion has been made, the State Department refused to consider it and turned away with the air of an old lady who has been asked to take tea with a convict...