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...Said Acheson, as he submitted the plan to the General Assembly: "Before us lies opportunity for action which can save the hope of peace . . . Before us also lies opportunity for drift, for irresolution, for effort feebly made . . . The choice is ours . . . There is no longer any question: Will the United Nations survive? . . . This question has been answered ... by United Nations action against aggression in Korea. Blood is thicker than...
...These Days? Acheson's speech had its points of wisdom, but it also contained plenty of evidence that he still clings to a policy of drift in Asia, still cherishes hopes of conciliating Russia. In labeling Russia the main "obstacle to peace," he used remarkably kid-gloved language, e.g.: "The use by Soviet leaders of the international Communist movement . . . has been a great source of trouble in the world." Acheson also announced that the U.S. would ask the Assembly to decide the vital issue of Formosa, and that all "concerned and interested parties" should be invited to have their...
...weakest passage in the speech was the expression of a hope-which Dean Acheson has often expressed before-that the Soviet leaders may yet turn into good little boys. Said he: "It is but 33 years since the overthrow of the Czarist regime in Russia. This is a short time in history. Like many other social and political movements before it, the Soviet Revolution may change. In so doing, it may rid itself of the policies which now prevent the Soviet Union from living as a good neighbor with the rest of the world...
Over 100 members of the Massachusetts Action Committee for Peace picketed against Secretary of State Dean Acheson at his Commencement address this June. The members carried placards up and down Massachusetts Avenue denouncing Acheson's part in the cold...
Later this summer, Reverend Robert, M. Muir, leader of the committee, conducted morning chapel in Memorial Church. He explained, "After all, it was Acheson, we were demonstrating against, not Harvard...