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...Dean Acheson had spent the morning in his secluded Georgetown study poring over the latest arguments of his critics, digesting the bristling headlines and editorials. When he rose at luncheon to speak to the 500 Washington newsmen, guests and Congressmen jammed into the National Press Club ballroom, he propped only a few notes on the lectern before him. Then, summoning the brightest of his lawyer's talents, he launched last week into his case for Asia. It was as close as a Secretary of State could come to a shirt-sleeved defense of policy...
...themselves deceived. Russia, using Communism-"the most subtle instrument of Soviet foreign policy . . . ever devised"-is the new imperialist in Asia. Already Soviet Russia was proving the point in China by absorbing the northern "provinces" of Outer Mongolia, Manchuria, Inner Mongolia and Sinkiang. "I should like to suggest," said Acheson, "that this fact ... is the single most significant, most important fact in the relation of any foreign power with Asia...
...Acheson Statement...
...letter to Mrs. C. Bruce (Marjorie) Hsley, chairman of Wellesley's French department, Secretary of State Dean Acheson on December 22 stated that Emmanuel did not get a visa because he had abandoned his application before American consular officials in Paris had decided on his case...
...could; we failed. Seen from Washington, it seems perhaps a mistake to have tried; seen from here it is a tragedy to have falled, and to measure what communism is becoming even among old friends..." Pierre Emmanuel, letter to the CRIMSON, December 18, 1949Secretary of State ACHESON finally answered Mrs. Hsley's pleas for information about Pierre Emmanuel's status after Mrs. Hsley had requested Mrs. Acheson to bring the matter to her husband's attention. Mrs. Acheson, it turns out, is a Wellesley alumna...