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...year-old diplomat will be awarded the University's highest honorary degree, that of Doctor of Laws, for his leadership in the United Nations in the behalf of world peace. Secretary of State Dean G. Acheson, LL.B. '18, received the same degree last year...
...that I did not remember where I first got this information . . . The first time I really came into this, and found out what it was all about, was on Friday morning, April 6, when I met with the President and the others [Defense Secretary Marshall, Secretary of State Acheson, Presidential Adviser W. Averell Harriman] in his office...
Sprung Trap. Some of Wiley's fellow Republicans privately accused him of blundering; he had, they told favored newsmen, triggered a trap which they had set for Secretary of State Dean Acheson. The plan had been to make unpopular Dean Acheson the chief G.O.P. target, ask him pointed questions about his discussions with the President, then try to cite him for contempt if he refused to answer. Even if they couldn't make the charge stick, Republicans hoped to keep the case in the courts and before the public until...
Wiley had spoiled the strategy by trying it on Omar Bradley, a man as widely respected as Acheson is disliked. Even among his Republican colleagues, Wiley got only partial support...
Harry Truman seemed determined to take the whole responsibility for the firing. He exonerated his Secretary of State from Republican charges that Acheson was the real man. It was Acheson who had at first opposed firing MacArthur. What were Acheson's reasons? Political-purely, said Truman with a grin. Acheson said it would stir up a fuss, said the President, and he was right...