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Last week the House was far from happy about its resolution asking the Secretary of State whether the Truman-Churchill talks had resulted in any new U.S. troop commitments. Instead of a direct reply from Dean Acheson, the House Committee on Foreign Affairs received merely a letter and press handouts from the department. When the resolution of inquiry came back to the floor, the House shouted down an attempt to drop it, instead set up a cry of protest about the conduct of U.S. foreign policy. G.O.P. Whip Charlie Halleck, scenting an upset, scurried around to line up votes...
...foreign service (33 years), ambassador in Rome (1946-52) during the momentous 1948 elections which ended in a sound trouncing for the Communists (Dunn's work during the elections won him the State Department's Distinguished Service Award and an accolade from Secretary Dean Acheson): to become U.S. Ambassador to France, replacing David K. E. Bruce, recently appointed Under Secretary of State...
...Tangier. The clearance was a stiff reply to both Joe McCarthy and ex-Communist Louis Budenz who charged that Vincent operated as a Communist sympathizer while he ran State's Office of Far Eastern Affairs between 1945 and 1947. To make the point sharp, Secretary of State Dean Acheson gave Vincent his personal assurance of "the department's full confidence . . . appreciation of your 27 years of conscientious service and best wishes for the future...
NATO Substantial Achievement In Lisbon's sunny setting, the top diplomats of the free world last week burst out with unexpected optimism. "Dawn is breaking," said Dean Acheson of the U.S., "and a new day is dawning for all of us." Proclaimed Britain's Anthony Eden: "The beginning...
Things looked darkest for the European Army just before the NATO session began (TIME, Feb. 25). Then four men gathered in London. Sitting down with Lisbon's Big Three-Acheson of the U.S., Eden of Britain, Schuman of France-was a man who was not even invited to Lisbon: Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. They met because West Germany's price for joining the European Army had collided head on with France's price for letting Germany...