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Taft and Wherry announced that they would stand behind the President, but they had a few rocks in their hands when they said it, and quickly whizzed them off at Secretary of State Dean Acheson's elegant top hat. The Communist attack in Korea might well not have taken place, argued Taft, if the U.S. had given the South Koreans proper aid, and he thought Acheson "had better resign." Wherry loudly agreed. Now that the U.S. had decided to protect Formosa, as he had urged, said Taft, he felt vindicated. But Taft said nothing about Senate votes last September...
...testimony, it was time, said Senator Millard Tydings, to take a breather. Over the protests of its two Republican members, the Tydings subcommittee voted to hear no more from Senator Joe McCarthy or any witnesses until it had produced an "interim report" on charges of Communists in Dean Acheson's State Department...
...Acheson pointed out that many of State's loyalty problems traced back to 1945 and 1946, when State absorbed some 3,000 employees of the OWI and the OSS. The loyalty program had not yet been instituted, and since then, Acheson insisted, State had done a good job of weeding out "misfits." Said Acheson: "We are satisfied-as far as anyone can be in this imperfect world-that we have a good, clean, loyal and honest outfit...
...Only a Smoke Machine." Acheson was firm but informal, careful to avoid the impatience he often shows with critics. When someone suggested that where there was smoke there must be fire, Acheson was ready with an anecdote from an ex-Navy officer, who told him: "In the Navy I learned that where there is smoke, there is often only a smoke machine...
...this, the two governors proved at odds last week with Republican national leaders. "In the immortal words of Dean Acheson," said Senator Owen Brewster, who heads the party's senatorial campaign committee, "I will not turn my back on Joe McCarthy." National Chairman Guy Gabrielson was sure that most people approved McCarthy's "objectives." How about his methods? "I don't think that the average citizen is close enough to the question to know or care," replied Gabrielson...