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...Everything in the World." Secretary of State Acheson led off. As a sounding board he used a convention of some 200 delegates of labor, industry, professional and religious organizations in Washington. He assumed for diplomatic reasons, or perhaps because he still believed it, that the Red Chinese were merely concerned about their property, that they had come into the fight in Korea just to protect their border. "We are in very considerable difficulties," Acheson said. "We must clear away any misunderstanding that there may be in the minds of the Chinese. Everything in the world," he said, in the statement...
...rumor that would not be downed in Washington was that Secretary of State Dean Acheson would be out by the first of the year. The election gave it new impetus. "I would assume with these election results," said Harold Stassen, "that Secretary Acheson would resign." G.O.P. National Chairman Guy Gabrielson felt the same way. Republican Senators, including Joe McCarthy and Bourke Hickenlooper, began warming up for new investigations of the State Department...
...first post-election press conference, Dean Acheson was ready for the question. "I should say that happily the interpretation of election returns in the United States does not fall either within my responsibility or within my competence," he began...
...Acheson was obviously pleased with the way he had phrased his answer, and he gave reporters permission to quote it direct. But it was just the kind of toplofty response that his critics found hard to take and his friends found hard to defend. It did nothing to stop the rumors. Dean Acheson owed his job to just one man, Harry Truman, who has said he considers him one of the "great Secretaries of State." The President was apt to stick by him the more he was attacked. Acheson's peril, however, lay not so much with critics...
...Peiping seat in the U. N., and is awaiting a Peiping delegation to discuss possible settling of differences and withdrawal of Chinese troops from Korea. At present no one is sure of Mao's real aims in entering the fight. "Perhaps what the Chinese really fear," Secretary of State Acheson said Wednesday, "is the loss of their interest in the northern border area-notably the Yalu River power installations. If so, the U. S. will do everything possible to make certain they know their interests will be protected...