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...Waldorf-Astoria suite 37 floors above Manhattan's Park Avenue, the foreign ministers of the three Western powers sat down this week to one of the most crucial conferences since V-J day. The issues before them girdled the globe. But the "major effort," Secretary of State Dean Acheson said as the conference began, centered on Western Europe...
That did not mean that the U.S.'s Acheson, Britain's Bevin or France's Schuman were overlooking Asia, where men were paying with their lives for past blunders -notably the blunders of the U.S. Yet there was no denying that the final issues between East and West were most likely to be resolved where East meets West, in Europe's industrial heartland...
...decision to reinforce U.S. troops in Europe was part of a far-reaching U.S. command decision (TIME, Sept. 11). Acheson was also authorized to tell his fellow ministers that the U.S. was ready to arm Western Germans (perhaps ten divisions) as part of a unified North Atlantic force, and to appoint a U.S. Supreme Commander to run the show...
...Launched the $34.5 million Point Four program by naming Secretary Acheson as supervisor and creating two collaborating agencies to carry out the work of providing technical advice and supervision in the world's underdeveloped areas...
Double Trouble. Congressional critics were quick to catch the change of temper; most Democrats regarded both Secretaries as albatrosses around the President's neck. Last week, for the first time since the Korean war, Johnson and Acheson marched up Capitol Hill together to argue for the $4 billion foreign-arms program. They would get the money, all right. But for more than three hours, behind closed doors, committeemen blistered the Administration's failure to prepare for Korea. This time Acheson was not the only one to draw the committee's anger. Johnson, who had long done...