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They Were Sure. Events moved swiftly. There began a painstaking matching of the scientific evidence with intelligence reports. AEChairman David Lilienthal was summoned from Martha's Vineyard, where he was vacationing, for hurried briefing. Secretary of State Dean Acheson was called in. Some time last week the scientists reported to the President: they were sure that Russia had brought off an atomic explosion...
...soon as the decision was made, a courier was sent to Secretary of State Acheson at the U.N. meeting in Flushing Meadows so that he would be informed in advance of the public announcement. The British, French and Canadians were also told; Britain decided to make a parallel statement from 10 Downing Street. By next morning, the arrangements were complete and the President's message was published to the Cabinet and the press...
After eight months in office, Secretary of State Dean Acheson this week made his first comprehensive statement on U.S. policy toward Latin America. To the 700 members and guests of the Pan American Society who heard his speech at Manhattan's Hotel Roosevelt, it seemed more a reiteration of long-established principles than a blueprint...
Speaking before the Pan American Society, Acheson restated the State Department's firm opposition to filibustering expeditions like those of the Caribbean Legion against Dominican Dictator Rafael Trujillo. Such plots, he noted, "have in themselves been inconsistent with our common commitments not to intervene in each other's affairs . . ." On the other hand he answered critics of the State Department's prompt recognition of military regimes in Peru and Venezuela. Recognition, he said, "need not be taken to imply approval" either of the regimes or their policies. The U.S. stands firmly for democracy and for non-intervention...
...such programs, however, the U.S. would be guided by one underlying principle. Said Acheson, "Progress will come most rapidly to nations that help themselves vigorously...