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...Lippmann's week. Having suffered a rebuttal of his Far Eastern policy, the columnist also found himself under attack for the policy he proposes in the West. Writing in the Saturday Evening Post, Dean Acheson quoted Lippmann's advice that the U.S. should leave Europe to the Europeans. Calling this the "grossest error," Acheson recalled that the U.S. was forced to intervene twice this century to settle an "essentially European" war. "Whether the problems be those left unresolved in Central Europe and Germany at the end of the last war; or the control and limitation of armaments...
...disposition in this country to search for scapegoats to blame for the situation [in Viet Nam]. Americans are singularly free from the disposition to vent a sanguinary fury on officials who have the misfortune to preside at disagreeable affairs . . ." Pondering this thought in his Georgetown home, Dean Acheson, 72, allowed as how it was not always thus. Perhaps recalling several brushes with Senator Joe McCarthy as well as his Secretary of Stateship during the Korean War, Acheson displayed his precise literary style in a twelve-line poem to the Post's editor. A couplet...
...ring just down the hall from where his father once worked for Stimson. Now, in the State Department, Bill is a seasoned pro and is in a position to give Mac, the gifted amateur, sound advice on any sensitive subject. Bill is married to former Secretary of State Dean Acheson's daughter Mary. And there is also a Bundy link with the clan Kennedy, though admittedly a very slender...
Heart of the Matter. This is a favorite theme of Bundy's. "Very near the heart of all foreign affairs," he wrote 14 years ago in a preface to a collection of Dean Acheson's state papers, "is the relationship between policy and military power...
...judgeship on Massachusetts' highest bench), Frankfurter became such an intimate adviser of Franklin Roosevelt that Mississippi Congressman Daniel McGhee labeled him "the Rasputin of this administration." As F.D.R.'s top talent scout, Frankfurter manned the New Deal ramparts with such protégés as Dean Acheson, Jerome Frank, David Lilienthal, Thomas Corcoran and the ill-fated Alger Hiss. Predictably, they were called "Happy Hot Dogs," from the Latin felix for happy. Then came "the 1939 death of Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo, who had officiated at Frankfurter's marriage to Marion A. Denman, the daughter...