Word: jessup
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week, roving Ambassador Philip C. Jessup hurried home from a round-the-world trip to answer McCarthy's roundhouse accusation that Jessup has "an unusual affinity for Communist causes." He brought with him a letter from General George Marshall, who wrote Jessup that he was "shocked and distressed by the attack on your integrity," and another from General Dwight Eisenhower, saying that "no one who has known you can for a moment question the depth or sincerity of your devotion to the principles of Americanism...
Angry Denials. By week's end McCarthy had fetched up only two or three headline-catching tidbits for the Senate Committee. One was a passing reference to Ambassador-at-Large Philip Jessup ("An unusual affinity for Communist causes"). Another was the name of a suspect who turned out to be neither a Communist nor a State Department employee. She was ex-U.N. Delegate Dorothy Kenyon, onetime Manhattan municipal court judge, whom McCarthy accused of having belonged to "at least 28 Communist-front organizations...
...diplomacy's search for a Far Eastern policy settled down leisurely for three days in Bangkok. To Siam's templed capital came America's top foreign-service officers from stations throughout the Orient. They had been summoned by roving Ambassador Philip C. Jessup and Assistant Secretary of State W. Walton Butterworth to mull over a program that might check the southerly flow of Communism at China's borders...
...officially propose one, hoped unofficially that the Asiatics would write one themselves. They surveyed the prospect for U.S. economic and military aid to Indo-China, Thailand and Burma, the soft underbelly of non-Communist Asia. If they came to any solid conclusion, the same was locked tightly in Phil Jessup's briefcase for the slow return jaunt, via Europe, to Washington...
...indecisiveness of U.S. diplomacy in the face of the vast crisis in Asia was all too apparent to the Americans' Siamese hosts. Jessup and Butterworth called on Siam's Premier Phibun Song-gram (see cut), and had some refreshments, but they seemed to have made no firm impression that the U.S. had advanced beyond the scouting-and-thinking stage in Southeast Asia. No one seemed to talk of action. While U.S. diplomats dallied, the Bangkok government pointedly let it be known that it would not yet follow the U.S.-British lead in recognizing the French-sponsored...