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Your Dean Acheson piece reaches new, dizzier peaks of tendentiousness . . . Your determination to look facts in the face without seeing them will also confirm European alarm and dismay at. the insane irresponsibility of American politics...
...Acheson and his bright boys ... are still, even this minute, depriving us of the tremendous aid we could secure by backing Chiang to the limit and backing him now. Chiang may not be a lily of the valley, and neither is Tito. But what is Chiang's record with Communism as compared to Acheson's? Chiang was fighting Communism tooth and toe while we stabbed him in the back . . . BURTON K. DAVIDSON Brookhaven, Miss...
...Said Acheson: the situation had changed since then. It also appeared that in 1949 he had not exactly understood the original question-although no man ever gave a more positive answer to a question he did not exactly understand...
Harry Truman's dander was up. The 81st Congress had constantly stepped on his executive toes. Now the new 82nd was trying to tell him what he should do. A number of Congressmen were demanding that he fire Dean Acheson; a number of others were trying to hold his feet to the fire for his foreign policy, an attempt to which he angrily assigned a purely political motive. It was in defiant reaction to those irritations that he had tossed off his truculent assertion that the President had the right to send U.S. troops anywhere in the world, whether...
...Absolute No." Fortunately, at this juncture, tempers soon began to cool. From Foggy Bottom emanated the voice of Secretary Acheson, spreading some oil. He thought a compromise could be worked out, he said. And he even tried to explain his old statement, made in 1949, that the North Atlantic pact did not mean sending a large number of troops to Europe. ("The answer ... is a clear and absolute no," he had said...