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Better than most he knew the history of the Administration's bewildering policy there: its brushoff of Formosa last January as strategically not worth the risk; its apparently forthright decision on June 27 to defend it; Dean Acheson's spurning, after that, of any alliance with Chiang...
...week the Chicago Sun-Times directed its Washington correspondent to ask the State Department if it would change the hour of the Monday release date on.Mac-Arthur's statement. State was taken aback. It did not know that MacArthur had made any statement on Formosa or anything else. Acheson telephoned the White House, which knew nothing about 'it either. Neither, as it turned out, did the Department of Defense. Washington officialdom went into a flap, trying to get hold of the text. But it was not until Saturday morning, by which time the Associated Press had calmly...
...Acheson Picketer Returns...
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...