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After Cripps went home to devalue the pound, Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin stayed on in Washington. He had a meal with Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Vice President Barkley and Senator Tom Connally. Then Bevin and Acheson settled down with platoons of experts to compare their views of the world. They discussed...
...China. Acheson and Bevin agreed that Chiang Kai-shek's government was beyond help and beyond hope, except for the hope that Russia might not be able to exploit the Communist conquest. Britain has heavier investments in China than the U.S. has; she is more eager to stay in business there, despite the fact that the Reds have killed Britons and shot up British ships in the Yangtze River. The U.S. and Britain agreed that in making deals with the Communists, they would look out for each other's interests...
...political East-West conflict which had focused so much attention on the West's economic troubles, like sharp reefs exposed in an ebb tide. Yet nobody thought it safe to assume that Moscow would make no more bids for power in Europe. With Bevin, Schuman and Acheson in Washington, the representatives of nine other Atlantic Pact nations* joined them to blueprint Western defense machinery. In this field, the statesmen were on sure ground; a scheduled three-hour meeting lasted only one hour...
...morning's problem may be anything from London's attitude on the Austrian peace treaty to an analysis of how to soothe ruffled U.S. feelings over the Anglo-Argentine trade treaty. Tactics are studied: Is the issue crucial enough for a personal visit by Franks to Acheson-or will more be gained by "underplaying" it and sending a counselor to his State Department opposite number? After 6½ years' experience in Washington, the Minister is pretty shrewd at pacing and directing the attack...
...Secretary of State, welcomes fruitful discussion on any level. He has lately achieved a remarkable triumph over his own personal reticence-that gravity and sobriety that had made many of his diplomatic colleagues find him chilly. He is on a first-name basis with such key officials as Dean Acheson, John Snyder, State's Assistant Secretary Jack Hickerson. With the more intellectual U.S. policymakers, e.g., Planner George Kennan, he spends long quiet evenings, far from the distracting clink of the cocktail glasses. Although he has deliberately thawed his manner-as part of his job of thawing U.S. dollars, Franks...