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What is the U.S. willing to settle for in Korea? Testifying before the MacArthur investigating committee, Secretary of State Dean Acheson gave a surprising answer: the U.S. will be content to stop the fighting at the 38th parallel. It will be willing to leave North Korea in Communist hands, so long as there are "reliable assurances" that the Communists will not renew their aggression. A "unified, free and democratic Korea" is not one of U.S. war aims...
...Acheson drew a sharp distinction between the U.N.'s military objectives in Korea and its political objectives. Said he: "Our objective is to stop the attack, end the aggression, restore peace-providing against the renewal of the aggression . . . That is the military objective of the United Nations as laid down by the United Nations itself . . . The United Nations has, since 1947, and the United States has, since 1943 or 1944, stood for a unified, free and democratic Korea. That is still our purpose and is still the purpose of the United Nations. I do not understand...
...Acheson added a few kind words for the Georgians: "You have been able, through the ages, to preserve your national personality, and you have never lost the will to stand up for human rights. We Americans admire you for this enduring spirit." A battery of five Georgians employed by the Voice translated the speech into their native tongue, and it was broadcast twice...
...vote for the bill, he cried, was a vote for Dean Acheson. India was trying to blackmail the U.S. If it got the loan, it might share it with Russia. If the U.S. fed the Indians, it would soon have to feed "a train of other countries . . What a snare and a delusion . . ." he bawled, "the height of insanity. And it might be well to remember that India has 180 million sacred cows, and God in heaven alone knows how many sacred monkeys . . . All of these will have first claim on ... food ... we send India...
Nothing Doing. On the sixth day of Omar Bradley's testimony, Iowa's Bourke Hickenlooper broke in to make a proposal. Why not skip the three Joint Chiefs, who were next in line to be heard, and move on to Dean Acheson? In doing so, Hickenlooper conceded that "the Joint Chiefs will probably be in general agreement" with Bradley and George Marshall, thus conceding that the Republicans had just about abandoned their hope that the hearings would find the Joint Chiefs siding with MacArthur against the President. Democratic Chairman Richard Russell put it up to the committee...