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Harry Truman wore his air of determined calm, but there were changes in his crowded routine. His calling list still included old cronies from Kansas City but the unlisted callers were more important. Secretary of State Acheson and Defense Secretary Louis Johnson dropped in almost at will. Every morning at 9-after the walk, after the breakfast swim and massage-he got a briefing from J.C.S. Chairman Omar Bradley (see cover). And he had issued orders to ring the telephone beside his bed at any time of night if there was important news...
Secretary of State Dean Acheson branded the petition a "propaganda trick," pointed out that more than half the population of North Korea was reported to have signed just before they launched their attack...
...true that he saw the Communist menace in Asia. He wanted to draw some kind of a line there. He thought the U.S. should at least send a military.mission to the Chinese Nationalist government on Formosa. On that point he was out-talked by Secretary of State Dean Acheson...
Secretary of State Acheson, like the rest, wanted the U.S. sales talk amplified, provided the U.S. was chary of "permitting what we say to outrun what we do." But he wanted his department to keep the job: State was, in fact, just about ready to ask Congress to underwrite a $100 million "Campaign of Truth...
...stubbornly insisted on the maximum distribution of official American statements that were bound to undermine the Formosans' confidence in their government. On more than one occasion, Formosa's Nationalists have sharply and justifiably reminded the puny U.S. representation here that the statements of Secretary of State Dean Acheson and other Washington spokesmen constituted a direct attack on a government which was, after all, host to the very Americans in charge of disseminating these statements throughout Formosa...