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...ACHESON: "Senator, if you accomplish what you started out to do, I don't think that is synonymous with saying you stopped where you began. We started out to do two things. One is repel the armed attack, and the other is to restore peace and security in the area. Now, if we do those two things, we have done what we started out to do, and I should think that is success...
...intervention of the Chinese Communists had made unification of Korea "militarily difficult, if not impossible," said Acheson. But U.N. "forces were not put into Korea to do that when they went in in June," he insisted...
Asked New Jersey's Senator H. Alexander Smith: "Does that suggest the possibility of a cease-fire at or near the 38th parallel?" Said Acheson: "If you could have a real settlement, that would accomplish the military purposes in Korea...
...ACHESON: "If you once get the conviction on the part of the Chinese that they . . . haven't got the strength, to do what they want from the military point of view . . . The way is open for some sort of a settlement in Korea which can be accepted [by both sides] on the basis of mutually known strengths...
This week Dean Acheson dropped a bombshell-an explanation of Yalta that was a strange and startling contradiction of the "brotherly-fellows" theme of the older story. "The grave danger," said Acheson, ". . . was that [the Russians] would really wait until the [Pacific] war was over and until we had expended our effort and blood to win the war, and [then] they would come in and do what they wished...