Word: achesons
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...shown in the news pictures between Russia's Molotov and the U.S.'s Stettinius; at Yalta, he sat at Franklin Roosevelt's shoulder. He inspired confidence; even in his days of exposure and trial, men of imposing station spoke for him unquestioningly - Secretary of State Acheson, Ambassador Philip Jessup, Supreme Court Justice Frankfurter...
Last week, in a letter to four congressional leaders, Secretary of State Dean Acheson signaled for a change of mind-but not, he was quick to add, a change of heart. The U.S. was ready to vote in the U.N. for restoration of normal relationships with the Franco government (provided someone else would introduce a resolution). This, he added, did not mean approval of Franco. "It is difficult to envisage Spain as a full member of the free Western community without substantial advances in such directions as increased civil liberties, and as religious freedom and the freedom to exercise...
...Washington, Senate Democrats decided at a caucus to stick together behind Secretary of State Dean Acheson, though many were privately critical of his foreign policy in Asia. It was the Republicans who loudly demanded that something more decisive be done. Then last week, to the amazement of everybody, House Republicans teamed up with Southern Democrats and New York's Communist-line Vito Marcantonio to defeat a $60 million installment of economic aid for Korea. The vote...
Nobody was more embarrassed by the House vote than the Senate Republicans, who had been blaming Acheson for doing too little too late. Their anchor man, California's hefty, well-tailored Bill Knowland, said tersely: "Korea will get its help at this session." Administration strategists decided to send through a new version of the Korean aid bill, and hoped to get it passed...
...desperately wants U.S. economic help. He has so far stayed in power largely by keeping one of the biggest armies in Europe well-fed and happy; now this army is getting hungry and may start shopping around for a government which would be more apt to attract U.S. aid. Acheson says he is afraid a continued U.S. cold shoulder might bring Spain a "costly civil war." A U.S. Ambassador and some aid will make sure that Franco and his bully boys can block that revolt before it ever gets started...