Word: achesons
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...last hard-driving primary campaign in South Dakota, Bob Taft concentrated on what he had found to be "the greatest concern" of the American people: U.S. foreign policy. With forthright emphasis, "Mr. Republican" denied the existence of genuine bipartisanship in foreign affairs, denounced the diplomacy of Truman and Acheson as "the most disastrous" in the whole history of U.S. foreign policy, then offered his own formula to protect freedom and defeat Communism. He disavowed isolationism in the strongest terms, and called for a "crusade" to "spread the doctrine of individual liberty throughout the world...
...sentences tucked into an Armed Forces Day address by Secretary of State Dean Acheson last week seemed to be the first open acknowledgment that the U.S. has at last moved on from containment to the more dynamic doctrine of retaliation...
...Acheson seemed to be answering-and accepting, in a reserved sort of way-the vigorous call of Statesman John Foster Dulles for meeting Communist aggression "by retaliatory action of our own fashioning" (TIME, May 19). Said the Secretary: "There has been a widespread misunderstanding that what we are seeking to create is a static containment situation. This is not at all the case...
Secretary of State Dean G. Acheson has just appointed four men to prepare fresh American proposals for disarmament and atomic energy control...
...Said Acheson: "Utterly false Communist charges . . . part of the 'hate America' line which is now being supplemented with a 'hate Americans' line...