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...foreign ministers of Australia and New Zealand, Richard G. Casey and T. Clifton Webb, pulled up chairs around a green baize table at Kaneohe Marine Air Station in Honolulu this week, full of announced eagerness, to face Secretary of State Dean Acheson, whose mission was to send them away disappointed...
...your July 14 report of reactions in the House of Commons to Mr. Churchill's quotation of Mr. Acheson's reference to "snafu" on the vexed question of the Yalu River bombings: Churchill "rolled the unfamiliar word around for a while and it came out snayfooo...
...again. But things have changed: now the villagers as well as the rich get soaked by taxes, and Maid Marian's mink coats have caused comment in the greenwood. There is a feeling that Robin has not been smart about the Communists, and Little John Acheson's foreign policy has caused fear for the future. Above all, Herbert Hoover is not Sheriff of Nottingham this year...
...Administration's decision to pull U.S. troops out of Korea in 1949, and Dean Acheson's 1950 statement that the U.S. could not guarantee Korea against attack, Douglas quoted a Joint Chiefs of Staff memorandum suggesting that the U.S. could well use its Korea-based troops elsewhere. "Now who do you suppose was the Chief of Staff of the Army when this military advice was given?" asked Douglas, theatrically cupping his ears and leaning over the rostrum, as if to listen for an answer. "It was Dwight D. Eisenhower!" And who did the delegates think made...
...wide-eyed traveler: Dean Acheson, U.S. Secretary of State...