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Secretary of State Acheson replied: "We are rejecting any policy of sitting quivering in a storm cellar waiting for whatever fate others may wish to prepare...
...sessions they hold with the President, trying to anticipate newsmen's questions and how to answer them. For Harry Truman's first press conference since the news turned bad in Korea, they figured that the big question would be: What about the Republicans' demand for Dean Acheson's head...
...Refuse." "There have been new attacks within the past week against Secretary of State Acheson," he began with a fixed smile. "I have been asked to remove him from office. The authors of this suggestion claim this would be good for the country. How our position in the world would be improved by the retirement of Dean Acheson from public life is beyond me. Mr. Acheson has helped shape and carry out our policy of resistance to Communist imperialism...
...Communism were to prevail in the world-as it shall not prevail*-Dean Acheson would be one of the first, if not the first, to be shot by the enemies of liberty and Christianity . . . These recent attacks on Mr. Acheson are . . . the same sort of thing that happened to Seward. President Lincoln was asked by a group of Republicans to dismiss Secretary of State Seward. He refused. So do I refuse to dismiss Acheson . . ." When he came to the final sentence, President Truman slapped the manuscript to his desk with the flat of his hand. That, said the gesture...
Unity. President Truman's belated but emphatic defense of Acheson was a signal for the Democrats on Capitol Hill to come to the aid of the party. They had sat back in conspicuous silence during the months of Republican assaults on Dean Acheson. Up rose a man least likely to be accused of sympathy for the Secretary of State or his views-archaic (81), rheumy-eyed Kenneth D. McKellar of Tennessee. "[I] . . . urge each and every one of my colleagues and every American citizen to stay together in this time of trouble," said he. Old Kenneth McKellar could...