Word: dean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the foreign ministers of Britain and France sat down with Secretary of State Dean Acheson, almost everyone expected that their conversations would be of the dull and profitless sort that are officially known as "exploratory." The talks proved to be nothing of the kind. Last week, after months of recriminations, bickerings and mutual suspicions, France's Robert Schuman, Britain's Ernest Bevin, and Acheson swiftly compromised their quarrels and wrote what amounted to an interim peace treaty for Western Germany...
Almost as soon as the North Atlantic Treaty, in its blue goatskin binding, was safely tucked away in the State Department archives, eight of the signers went one step further. They asked Secretary of State Dean Acheson if they could now expect arms from the U.S. No facts or figures were mentioned, though rough estimates put the first-year cost somewhere between $1 billion and $2 billion. Acheson promised to see what he could...
...which requires a two-thirds majority), Acheson would be forced to ask a handout from a Congress which still hoped to get through the session without saddling a deficit on the country. If pact and handout were wrapped too tightly together, Acheson apparently feared, Congress might reject both. So Dean Acheson set out to prove that arms and the pact logically belonged together-but were really separate. It took some twisting of the tongue, even for a practiced diplomat...
...Britain and France last week reached agreement on a blueprint for Western Germany. In eight days of intensive conferences in Washington, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Britain's Ernest Bevin and France's Robert Schuman accomplished more than they and their regiments of advisers had in the past eight months...
Chao Tse-chen, 61, dean of the School of Religion at Peiping's Yenching University, is an austere, kindly man who wears his thinning gray hair in a close-cropped stubble, and occasionally smokes a pipe. Known among his students as "T.C.," he is easily the most popular Christian teacher in China...