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...conversational tones but with carefully chosen words, Secretary of State Dean Acheson last week defined the new position on foreign policy that the Administration had slowly-and sadly-come around to: the U.S. is putting its hope of peace not in negotiations with the U.S.S.R. but in the old-fashioned doctrine that strength bows only to strength...
...have seen that agreements reached with the Soviet government are useful when those agreements register facts or a situation which exists," Acheson told his news conference, "and that they are not useful when they are merely agreements which do not register the existing facts." In the frosty, gloomy classrooms of the cold war, said the Secretary of State, the U.S. had learned this lesson well. There was Berlin, where the Russians spurned agreements and threw up the blockade, then backed down before the airlift and the West's show of strength. There was Greece, where Russia defied...
...Argue with Rivers. "Now," said Dean Acheson, "you see the same exhibition on the other side in regard to Soviet policy in China . . . There have been created all over the world these situations of weakness. Every time one of those situations exists, and they exist in Asia and they exist in Europe, it is not only an invitation but an irresistible invitation for the Soviet government to fish in those troubled waters. To ask them not to fish and to say we will have an agreement that you won't fish is like trying to deal with a force...
...have been fighting mad ever since December, when the British abruptly announced their intention to cut the use of dollar oil in the sterling area (TIME, Jan. 2). Oilmen, trying to get the State Department to fight back and defend U.S. interests, became convinced that Secretary of State Dean Acheson did not really care. Triumphantly last week, they unearthed a letter to prove...
Small Victory. Very much on the spot, Secretary Acheson sternly declared at his midweek press conference, that "it was and is the U.S. view that the British action [against dollar oil] was taken without adequate consultation with American companies . . ." In London, Acheson's rebuke stirred up fresh worries that the crisis might lead to a reduction in Marshall...