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Just as Congress began to consider the Administration's whopping $8.5 billion request for 1952 foreign aid, Dean Acheson almost casually dropped a blockbuster: the figure that the Administration is actually thinking about is $25 billion, spread over the next three years...
Secretary Acheson, testifying before Connally's Foreign Relations Committee, seemed to be submitting to questions rather than trying to sell his program. He sidestepped battle with his Republican critics, sometimes curtly, sometimes indifferently. Maine's Owen Brewster tried to provoke him with a line of questioning about State's present China policy. Acheson said that he contemplated making no changes. "You are going to let the dust settle?" Brewster goaded. "If you wish to put it that way," Acheson wearily retorted...
Even while Acheson was testifying before a Senate committee, Republicans in the House were hunting him with a legislative ax. The plan, an old one, was to cut him down with a rider attached to the State, Commerce, Justice and Judiciary appropriation bill. The rider provided that no money in the appropriation could be paid to the head of a" department who, in the past five years, had been with a firm which acted for a foreign government. Though it named no names, it was directed solely at Dean Acheson, whose former Washington law firm (Covington & Burling) has represented...
Most Republicans, though they thought little of Acheson, thought even less of the idea; only a few more than half attended a caucus to discuss it, and of those who did show up, 33 voted against it. But the rider was dragged on to the floor and furiously debated. Democrats belabored it. No one could say much for it, and one Republican -California's Donald Jackson-had some pointed remarks to make against it. He would gladly vote for impeaching Acheson, he indicated. But the rider was "a trial by attainder . . . which says, in effect, that no man with...
...already held up for 15 minutes. The prince rushed into the room in his general's uniform and drew himself stiffly to attention. "Dear Papa, dear maman" he burst out, "I'm terribly sorry. I couldn't help it. I had to stop to receive Acheson, Bevin and Schuman." The King nodded gravely, excused the boy and waved him to his seat...