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...adjunct to Secretary Acheson's plan to funnel complaints about aggression through the veto-less General Assembly, the foreign minister of Yugoslavia has proposed to the United Nations a definition of an "aggressor...
...published photographs of Secretary of State Dean Acheson were giving his wife, visiting in Milwaukee, something to worry about: "When photographers come along they often find him just finishing a joke, even when he's with Vishinsky. I made the suggestion that perhaps he shouldn't be photographed laughing so much. So you can blame me if he looks too dignified and formal...
...what about Formosa? The question flapped along like the albatross as the Independence stuck her blue nose into the thick haze over Washington the next morning, passed over the fog-shrouded National Airport and landed instead at Andrews Air Force Base, twelve miles away (thus forcing Bess Truman, Secretaries Acheson and Snyder and the rest of the welcoming delegation to streak across town behind sirens). No one who knew Douglas MacArthur suspected that Harry Truman had talked him out of his conviction that Chiang Kai-shek should be shored up and Formosa defended against the Chinese Communists...
Republican candidates well know that, since the day of Roosevelt, they have to carry downstate Illinois by big margins to offset the Democratic majorities ground out by Jake Arvey's Chicago machine.* With spellbinding oratory, Republican Dirksen banged away at Communism, Acheson, inflation and wasteful foreign programs. "Lenin said, 'Someday we are going to force the U.S. to spend itself into destruction,' " cried Dirksen. "In the name of God, what are we doing? When will we wake...
...ready to do it," announced Dulles. "The door is open." He added a firm note of caution and skepticism: "I can't say that I entertain great hopes from these conversations, but one can never tell." In Washington, Dean Acheson echoed the U.S. Assembly delegate. Until Russia's attitude changed, observed the Secretary of State, the West must continue to build up its strength, lest weakness tempt Communist aggression...