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...weeks, the blister-conscious Administration let the case of John Carter Vincent hiss and steam on the back of the stove. Dean Acheson wanted to promote him from his job as U.S. Minister to Switzerland, make him Ambassador to Costa Rica. But an ambassador must be confirmed by the Senate, and the White House did not relish the prospect of another airing of Vincent's record. Items: during his years (1945-4?) as director of the State Department's Office of Far Eastern Affairs, he 1) assiduously promoted an anti-Chiang policy that played right into...
...trim for the forthcoming Hemisphere discussions, Dean Acheson flew to Bermuda with his wife for a two-week rest, his longest vacation since he became Secretary of State more than two years...
...hostile neighbors might tempt the Kremlin into a Balkan Korea. A sign of U.S. backing for Tito was the visit to Belgrade of Assistant Secretary of State George Perkins. The U.S. Mediterranean fleet has just completed joint maneuvers with the British. In Washington, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, like Tito, broadly hinted that "the fabric of peace" would be rent asunder by World War III if Yugoslavia were attacked...
...million plan, which would open the North American heartland to ocean shipping and release a mighty flow of new electric power, has been kicked around between planners, engineers and hard-boiled lobbyists for half a century. Now President Truman is sending his top men (headed by Secretaries Acheson and Marshall) to make a positive case for the project before the House Public Works Committee. Reason: the seaway's vital importance to Western defense, and, incidentally, to U.S.-Canadian unity...
...Washington last week, Roberto Urdaneta Arbeláez, Colombia's War Minister, told Dean Acheson and George Marshall that his country wished to go further in support of the U.N. cause. Colombia is willing, he said, to raise an entire new division (outfitted with arms to be bought in the U.S.) and make it available to the U.N. for service anywhere, any time. Said Edward Miller, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs: "Another heartening example of Colombia's seriousness of purpose in its foreign relations...