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...Acheson had been (to use his own metaphor) waiting for the dust to settle in China when the Reds surprised him by kicking up a lot more dust in Korea. It now appeared that one of his basic attitudes toward Russia was that the dust of the 1917 Revolution would settle one of these days. He would not believe that that Bolshevik dust was politically radioactive...
...trying to prove Dean Acheson's wishful point that the Russians might become good boys some day (see above), the Russians were being relatively mellow at U.N.'s General Assembly. Andrei Vishinsky opposed the U.S. plan for widening the powers of the Assembly, but he was less vitriolic than usual. Jacob Malik, the Relentless Rudolph of last month's Security Council sessions, softened to the point of telling one reporter to remember the Russian word nichevo. "It means," explained Malik, " 'don't worry, things will turn out all right...
Such Language. The Assembly's first dispute came over an Indian proposal supported by Russia and her satellites to seat delegates from Red China. A group of non-Communist nations, including Great Britain, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Israel and Pakistan also voted for the proposal. Dean Acheson declared that the majority of the U.N. still recognized the Nationalists as China's legitimate government, although he carefully suggested that the Assembly would be able to decide later which of the "two claimant regimes" should be seated...
Vishinsky, obviously having a wonderful time, tore into Acheson. No one had stated the case against the Nationalists better than the U.S. Secretary of State himself, said Vishinsky. He cited Acheson's remarks in the State Department's 1949 China white paper (in which Acheson called the Nationalist regime "a government which had lost the confidence of its own troops and its own people"). Vishinsky also quoted from General Joseph Stilwell's memoirs, in which Stilwell described the situation in China as the "Chinese cesspool" and the Nationalist regime as a "gang of murderers." Vishinsky elaborately apologized...
...Greece; 3) Nationalist Chinese charges that Soviet Russia interfered in the Chinese civil war; 4) Western charges against Russian jamming of foreign broadcasts; 5) Russia's failure to repatriate German and Japanese prisoners of war. The steering committee also put on the agenda, without protest from Russia, Dean Acheson's proposals for strengthening the role of the Assembly( see above). Then it passed, without protest from the U.S., a Russian proposal to debate "American aggression" against China by its intervention on Formosa...