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...natural prejudices of the free nations, the threats and legalisms thrown up by the Russians to block a Japanese Peace Treaty. He had succeeded with the kind of patient persistence and resourcefulness that U.S. statecraft had all but forgotten. As president of the conference, Secretary of State Dean Acheson personified U.S. determination to get on with the job. His urbane evenhandedness and parliamentary precision provided all nations with a right to be heard, provided none with a right to disrupt...
Mutual Defense. Several of the other delegations were already in San Francisco before him. Secretary of State Dean Acheson, John Foster Dulles, and a contingent of Senators and Representatives busied themselves with preliminaries. In Washington they had just signed a treaty of mutual assistance between the U.S. and the Philippines. At the Presidio in San Francisco, the envoys of the U.S., Australia and New Zealand listened to the U.S. Sixth Army band play God Save the King and The Star-Spangled Banner, then signed a mutual-defense pact...
Repeat Performance. Next day he answered a summons to the office of Secretary Acheson. He was there 29 minutes. That conversation was also reported at second hand. Secretary and ambassador discussed the Oatis case; Acheson made it emphatically clear that he did not understand the attitude of the Czech government. Once again, outside the office, Prochazka was confronted by belligerent reporters. One of his aides shouted: "Is the ambassador going to be restrained by force?" To questions about Oatis, Ambassador Prochazka said angrily: "From the juridical point of view [the case] is closed. We will not be influenced...
...McCarthy had magnanimous indulgence: "A fine young gentleman* who was ordered to do a job, and he did that job." Then, diving frequently into his brown bag for a black photostat, a picture, or a wad of congressional transcript, he turned his buckshot on his archenemies, Secretary of State Acheson, Defense Secretary Marshall, and U.S. Ambassador-at-Large Philip Jessup. He set the veterans whooping when he offered to take his case against Acheson and Jessup "to a jury of twelve men and twelve women . . . if the President's spokesmen can find a way to get them into court...
Nonetheless, McCarthy left his listeners gasping at his bravery when he challenged Duran, Jessup, Acheson & Co. to sue him for libel, since "there is no immunity that surrounds this podium here today." But again the McCarthy tongue had been quicker than the ear. In cold transcript, his apparently offhand statements turned out to be well protected by testimony already in the legislative record, or phrased behind a lawyer's calculated vagueness...