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Secretaries John Snyder and Dean Acheson, the British envoys would be primed to show that Britain's dollar shortage could not be blamed primarily on her costly social services or nationalization plans. It was the cumulative effect of a powerful historic cause...
Secretary Acheson, who is smarting under criticism of his White Paper on China (TIME, Aug. 15), and grows steadily more emotional over the Chinese Nationalist regime, jumped to the conviction that the Republican amendment would earmark aid for the Nationalists, and gave no weight to the larger idea of harassing the Communists...
...Acheson yielded-reluctantly. He decided that if Congress wanted to force the money on him, he would not openly oppose it, so long as the legislation did not require him to spend it through the Nationalist government...
...Acheson's conversion was too late to save the House $100 million proposal. But MAP has still to pass the Senate. There
...Acheson refuses to accept the Knowland proposal. Instead, he has his aides looking for some other bill to serve the same purpose. His attitude has convinced leading Republican Senators that he really opposes the whole idea, still sides with the department's dust-settling faction. At the moment, the chance of a positive program in China seems slim...