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FOREIGN RELATIONS An Asia Policy Will Russia blunder into war? Probably not in Europe, where allied defense lines are already drawn and few power vacuums exist, said Tom Dewey last week. But in the Pacific, the Kremlin can still make the fatal miscalculation. Dewey's solution, arrived at during a two-month tour of the Pacific: "Start immediately to build a well-rounded and complete Pacific mutual-defense alliance...
...Marshall." Half the time Lovett ran the department while Marshall was away in Europe. In 1948 Lovett was quick to see the implications of the Russian blockade of Berlin, strongly backed the Berlin airlift as a counterchallenge. A few months later he saved Harry Truman from a major diplomatic blunder. The President was all ready to go on the air and announce that he was sending Chief Justice Vinson to Moscow to reason with Stalin. Lovett heard about the plan, telephoned General Marshall in Paris, and confronted Truman with a joint ultimatum that both of them would resign...
Except for a passing mention in the Globe, the papers declined to discuss MacArthur's big blunder. Someone must have mumbled to the general that the truce agenda had been agreed upon in Kores, for when he visited a hospital a few minutes later he told more than one soldier. "You'll be interested to know that a truce was signed this morning...
Except for a passing mention in the Globe, the papers declined to discuss MacArthur's big blunder. Someone must have mumbled to the general that the truce agenda had been agreed upon in Kores, for when he visited a hospital a few minutes later he told more than one soldier. "You'll be interested to know that a truce was signed this morning...
...Valuable Services." U.S. High Commissioner John McCloy, arriving back on the scene from a U.S. visit, tried to retrieve the initial blunder. Police decoys, he admitted, are unloved characters anywhere. But the U.S. intervened in his case not for "valuable services" rendered the West, but because Kemritz had only aided an occupation power (Russia) in its legal right to arrest a suspected war criminal. To let a German court sentence him for doing so, said McCloy, would only encourage old Nazis to come out of their holes, start endless legal proceedings. It was a legalistic argument, and an unpopular...