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Next day Taft rose to expound his own views and to signal a Republican shift in fire from Harry Truman to a more battered target, Secretary of State Dean Acheson. "The choice between MacArthur and Acheson is the only issue," Taft declared. It is a choice between "a more aggressive war against China or an appeasement peace...
...reported on Chiang's needs in equipment and the U.S. starts shipping it, the mission will be built up to about 600 men. But just in case anyone might interpret this as a sign that the Administration had really been shaken into doing something, Secretary of State Dean Acheson hastily discouraged the notion. The aid program had been conceived before the MacArthur dismissal, he pointed out carefully, and he insisted that the program meant no change in the U.S. policy of neutralizing Formosa. By the terms of the agreement, he explained, the Chinese government must use the material only...
...another interpretation of Acheson v. MacArthur, see PRESS. † A bewildering feature of the Taft position: this week he told the U.S. Chamber of Commerce that the armed forces should be cut by 500,000 men and the mobilization budget reduced by $20 billion. Said he: "I don't believe the Government can take a third of the national product without inflation, loss of morale, resentment, labor trouble and the severest type of controls...
Only one other question got a rise out of the President. He was asked whether Paul Hoffman was about to succeed Dean Acheson as Secretary of State. Hoffman is not going to be Secretary of State, said the President. He paused a moment, then, seeing a chance to get in a plug for Acheson, added that he had a Secretary of State with whom he was very well satisfied and that was that...
Last June, following a meeting between Vogeler's handsome, Belgian-born wife and Secretary of State Acheson, news leaked that the U.S. was negotiating for Vogeler's release. A press association correspondent reported that the Hungarians were demanding the return of the 1,000-year-old crown of St. Stephen as ransom for Vogeler. The crown, a religious relic and symbol of. Hungarian sovereignty, was stolen by the Nazis, recovered by the U.S. Army. Roman Catholic dignitaries, including New York's Cardinal Spellman, protested against the return of the crown...