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...pleased. Even nations like Britain, who were wartime allies, got no such favored treatment. ECA nations had been required to sign tough bilateral treaties with the U.S., to subject their spending plans to U.S. scrutiny and to post counterpart funds of their own currencies against U.S. dollars. Dean Acheson denounced the Senate's action at his press conference, and Harry Truman backed him up. McCarran's amendment, said the President, was entirely out of place in the ECA bill and he hoped they would take...
...came from a young reporter who, with a show of innocence, got the match finally under way. How, he asked, did the President feel about Congressman Percy Priest's belief that Secretaries Johnson and Acheson should resign...
Secretary of State Dean Acheson had persuaded the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, against the advice of General MacArthur, that the U.S. should not intervene in Formosa. He advanced the remarkable argument that if Russia had its way in Asia, the Communists would eventually become highly unpopular among Asian people and the U.S. would gain popularity for its nice-mannered nonintervention...
...State Department rejected the offer. The no was polite. The State Department note merely said that the question of Red China's admission into U.N. must be decided by U.N. "on its merits." Nehru sent two more messages to Washington last week, repeating the same proposal, but Secretary Acheson politely declared the matter closed...
...General. Marshall, who winnowed thousands of messages from all over the world, boiled them down for Marshall, and set up the Chief of Staff's daily briefing session at 6:40 a.m. Within State, Humelsine had earned a reputation for mowing trivia and red tape out of Dean Acheson's path, leaving the Secretary freer than any of his predecessors to concentrate on the big issues. Like Peurifoy, hard-working Carl Humelsine had never taken time to be measured for striped pants...