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...Secretary of State Acheson, under whose foreign policy leadership, China's 400 million people have been tipped into the Communist bloc rather than held...
...critic in the country of the national Administration's policies in the Far East," said New York's Governor Tom Dewey after he came back from a Florida vacation. "But this moment is not the time for further criticism." Said Irving Ives: "I still believe that Secretary Acheson should be replaced. But... I certainly don't want to force any action that will occasion disunity...
...Acheson is a weak sister. Truman is no international bargainer. We don't have much confidence in U.N. in this kind of a situation. (Said another member from Texas: "I can't conceive of a worse crisis...
...Army's top planner, scholarly Lieut. General Alfred Maximilian Gruenther. Eisenhower's appointment was long overdue. A meeting of the twelve North Atlantic Treaty Foreign Ministers was scheduled for Brussels about Dec. 20, to seek agreement on German arming. This would give Secretary of State Dean Acheson a chance-if he wanted one-to prod the European governments into speed. So far, the Europeans who had been moaning that the U.S. was neglecting Europe for Asia seemed strangely inactive about their own defense in the little time that might be left to them...
...general, those who had roasted the Administration and Secretary of State Acheson in the past simply turned up the heat. Most of the rest withheld their fire. Even some of MacArthur's severest critics eased up. Said the usually critical Des Moines Register: "We are compelled to say in fairness that the 'kicking around' which the U.N. supreme commander in Korea is now getting seems most unjust and irresponsible...