Word: achesons
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...then the President began hearing new complaints. It was Johnson, he heard, who had leaked confidential statements and afterwards blandly denied making them. It was that man Louis, trying to build his own empire, who had taken aim on Secretary of State Dean Acheson, publicly praising him, privately slurring him, lambasting Acheson's Asian policy to the point where the feud was threatening all the nation's international policies...
Underlying the gossip were a few chunks of solid fact. The running feud between Johnson and State Secretary Dean Acheson (TIME, Sept. 11) had become so bitter that defense planning was being hampered, and no one seemed to be able to get it going smoothly. Strictly as a family affair, Harry Truman was reportedly beginning to see the quarrel as an either/or proposition; in such a situation, once recognized, there was no doubt which one would have to go. It would be Louis Johnson...
...thorough Defense Department shake-up (TIME, Sept. 11). Last week, despite an eloquent presidential appeal, the Marine Corps League had gone right ahead to pass a thundering censure of Louis Johnson (see above) and a demand for his resignation. But it had voted down a similar thrust at Dean Acheson...
...there was another thin but significant straw in the wind. Questioned on a press report that "a close adviser to President Truman" was predicting Johnson's resignation, White House Press Secretary Charles Ross issued a perfunctory "no comment." Asked if Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson would replace Acheson, he snapped a vigorous denial that left no doubt of the President's continuing confidence in his present Secretary of State...
...leaders were under no compulsion to let the French hamstring action on Germany as they had in the past. All that the U.S. had to say was that it would not and could not undertake to defend France so long as Germany was defenseless. This week, at long last, Acheson was prepared to be firm. Ernest Bevin was ready to back him. To both of them, the most important item before the Foreign Ministers was how, when and with what Germany would be strengthened to become the bastion of a free Europe...