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...from sour. That being the case, the party position-staking last week was left to a Democrat who is not running for any office at all. And next year Democratic candidates may be claiming that they agreed all along with "that great Democratic ex-Secretary of State, Dean Acheson...
...Bonn for a privately organized German-American conference on East West tensions, Acheson fired the most critical shots to date against President Eisenhower for going even so far as to discuss the possibility of a Berlin settlement with Russia's Nikita Khrushchev. Said Acheson: "All the trouble in Berlin is caused by Mr. Khrushchev. The situation there could endure for the indefinite future. But he decided to upset the arrangement a year ago. I would tell Mr. Khrushchev that I would not discuss Berlin. Let's talk about other matters, but there is nothing to talk about there...
First to place Acheson's criticism in a political context were not Republicans, but the liberal Democratic New York Post. Taking editorial issue with a byline story by its own Washington correspondent, William V. Shannon, who described the U.S.-Russian talks as nothing more than "another form of dithering by a weak, cowardly, reactionary Administration," the Post said: "We believe the issues [Shannon] raises are especially important because his position is undoubtedly shared by a number of Democratic leaders-most conspicuously, Dean Acheson-who seem so sorely tempted to 'open up' on the President and even...
...Ambassador (to Russia); 3) Governor (New York); 4) a man of such towering clout in Washington that former Secretary of State Dean Acheson personally toted his passport application (for a planned trip to Red China) to the State Department for approval. What's more, Harriman had brought along a collaborator almost as impressive: Charles W. Thayer, brother-in-law of ex-U.S. Ambassador to Russia Charles E. Bohlen and himself a career diplomat (including four years in Russia) turned freelance writer (Bears in the Caviar, The Unquiet Germans). Thayer's job was to act as combination guide...
Strauss cannot claim sole credit for finally persuading Harry Truman to issue the order, early in 1950, to get going on an H-bomb program. Playing equally important roles were Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, and Connecticut's late Democratic Senator Brien McMahon. But without Strauss's lonely battling, the decision would have come much later, possibly too late. As it was, the U.S. tested its first H-bomb only nine months before the first Soviet H-bomb explosion...