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From the Dreamers' Realm. Dean Acheson had gone to London haunted by the feeling that the West had to do something-but he did not know just what. Ernie Bevin was not in the mood to do anything. For nearly two years, the U.S. had insistently told Western Europe that it must integrate economically-and perhaps politically. For nearly two years, the British had quietly blocked all moves toward genuine integration-partly because Britain's Socialist government wanted nothing to do with the non-socialist economies on the Continent. Long before the Foreign Ministers met in London last...
...Firmer. France had assumed crucial importance not only in Western Europe, but in a more immediately dangerous cold war zone-Southeast Asia. Washington now feels that the French position in Indo-China is a key to the entire area. Last week, on the eve of the London conference, Dean Acheson formally decided to help the French in their costly war against IndoChina's Communist guerrillas (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...French cabinet listened attentively as Foreign Minister Robert Schuman reported a conversation he had had the day before with U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson. The Secretary, on his way to the London conference, had in effect said that Western Europe had bet ter get going in its conduct of the cold war and it had better lift its defenses out of the blueprint stage. As Schuman interpreted the Secretary's views, Acheson meant that everyone would have to make real sacrifices for a real defense system-and a real defense would be impossible if Western Germany were...
...dinner given in his honor by London's Society of Pilgrims, Acheson referred to his scars. Said he: "In the past months some of you may have felt that a strange and confusing dissonance has crowded the transatlantic frequencies from America ... I should say that the dissonance flows from the very awareness that difficult decisions must be made...
During his difficult talks on cold war strategy, Acheson was painfully reminded of one recent cold war victim. From Vienna, Mrs. Robert Vogeler had flown to see the Secretary and plead for U.S. action to win freedom for her husband, whom the Hungarians had jailed as a spy (TIME, Feb. 27). Acheson spent an hour with Mrs. Vogeler, assured her that the U.S. was doing everything in its power to obtain her husband's release. Said Mrs. Vogeler: "The Secretary was most charming and I am greatly encouraged...