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...told that Eisenhower is a Democrat when it comes to foreign policy. Then with Ike as President, Dean Acheson could stay right on as Secretary of State. Eisenhower has been hand-picked for us by the professional left wing (Drew Pearson, Joseph Alsop, Marquis Childs, et al.), and he has received the kiss of death from Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon...
...drew to a close this week, Secretary of State Dean Acheson cast up his accounts for the year and looked ahead to 1952. The best he could offer was a small, tentative note of optimism qualified by a grave warning: "It seems to me ... that we are better off than we were a year ago . . . But there are no grounds for complacency . . . The outcome in the contest between a better future and a return to the Dark Ages is still undetermined...
Outlook: Believes the Kremlin represents the most ruthless dictatorship in modern times, but that it may change or collapse under internal pressures, possibly at Stalin's death. In general, approves Dean Acheson's foreign-policy course, both in Europe and Asia. Thinks the West should never expect the U.S.S.R. to be a capitalist democracy like the U.S., but that the West could live in peace with a Russia which would: 1) lift the Iron Curtain, 2) give up "the ancient game of imperialist expansion and oppression." Kennan suffers from no illusion that he can perform any solo miracles...
Other Men of 1951. Nor was it Dean Acheson's year-except in the sense that he survived it. By his firm and skillful handling of the Japanese Treaty conference at San Francisco, Acheson got at least his forepaws out of the public's doghouse, and proved once again that he would be a masterful Secretary of State if all the U.S.'s enemies could be disposed of with a gavel. Yet all through 1951, Acheson's State Department was still caught as tight as Brer Rabbit in Tar Baby. The useless and impossible effort...
...TIME readers' nominations for Man of the Year, 14% voted for General MacArthur; 9% for John Foster Dulles; President Truman and General Eisenhower, 4%; Churchill and Senator Estes Kefauver, 3%; Dean Acheson, Senator Paul Douglas and the American Taxpayer, 2^%; Senator Taft, 2%; Senator McCarthy, Premier Mossadegh and John L. Lewis, i%%. The remaining 49^% votes were scattered...