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Around the big (20 feet long) table were gathered the advisers. Among them, on Harry Truman's side, were Secretaries Acheson, Marshall, Snyder, General of the Army Omar Bradley; with Attlee were Ambassador Sir Oliver Franks, Field Marshal Slim, Air Force Marshal Tedder. For an hour and 35 minutes, vowing they would come to a "mutual understanding," they laid the groundwork for discussions to come. Intermittently, behind closed doors, they talked for five consecutive days, while the noise of the katydids-planned "leaks" and planted rumors-rose around them...
Just when most Republican critics had muted their demands for Dean Acheson's head, the silence was broken by a new clamor. New York's middle-of-the-road, internationalist Republican Senator Irving Ives was for getting his colleagues together in a formal demand that the Secretary of State be sacked...
Practical Matters. The gist of the Ives draft was in the newspapers before Republican strategists decided what to do about it. Then Bob Taft and the policy committee whistled for a halt. They smothered Ives's resolution, set him to work with such wily oldtimers (and Acheson enemies) as Nebraska's Kenneth Wherry and Colorado's Eugene Millikin to work out a more diplomatic draft...
Taft made it clear that he was not doing this out of any sympathy for Dean Acheson. Obviously, the Republicans were worried about more practical considerations. They feared that the Ives resolution, whether Ives intended it so or not, suggested a Republican sitdown strike in the face of war. Since Harry Truman, and not the Republicans, would pick the next Secretary, they wondered what kind of man the nation was apt to get. Most talked of possibilities: Chief Justice Fred Vinson, ex-ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman, Defense Deputy Secretary Bob Lovett, John Foster Dulles, Presidential Adviser Averell Harriman. In Republican eyes...
...Time. But, reasoned G.O.P. strategists, why be blamed for killing off Acheson when a good many Democrats were working to the same end? Some lame-duck Democratic casualties had already made it plain to Harry Truman that Acheson had hurt their party badly. In the House there was a small rear-guard defense by a loyal handful ("He and his accomplishments will live in history long after the names of his detractors are forgotten," said Missouri's 34-year-old Congressman Richard Boiling, an ex-G.L), but in the Senate, not one Democrat rose last week to defend...