Word: achesons
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...Administration has no illusions about the tough battle it must fight to keep Congress from cutting deeply into President Truman's $7.9 billion request for foreign aid. Last week Mutual Security Director Averell Harriman, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Secretary of Defense Robert Lovett and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Omar Bradley wheeled into action. Before 40-odd members of congressional committees sitting jointly, the Administration's big guns laid down a barrage of painstakingly prepared statements...
Wined & Dined. Arriving in Washington last week without fanfare, and all but ignored in the press, he expressed a mild hope that the State Department might find a little time for him. The Department did better than that. He chatted privately for 20 minutes with Dean Acheson, dined with two assistant secretaries, and was cross-questioned by 20 State Department German specialists...
...Connally's toes were bruised and tender. Back home in Texas, where he is running a hard campaign for reelection, some of the folks had been stepping on him for paying too little attention to Texas and too much attention to Dean Acheson and those other dudes he runs into as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...
...last week he and Acheson walked out from a closed Foreign Relations Committee meeting about the governmental crisis in France. Inside, Acheson had just assured everybody that France would take care of her problems and do her part. Reporters asked Connally for a statement and his toes twinged. "France," he snapped, "must be told that she cannot rely upon the U.S. to defend her and to hand out large sums of money to aid her from an economic standpoint. France must do her duty. That...
...quit the W.F.T.U., as top Soviet union officials looked on. The night before the vote, Koushkin, the head of the Soviet Metalworkers Union, had a drink with Brown, suggested they bury the hatchet. "O.K.." snapped Brown. "You make your revolution against Vishinsky, and I'll make one against Acheson." Koushkin walked away, drink unfinished...