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Irked by mounting criticism of its wait-until-the-dust-settles attitude in Asia, the U.S. State Department last month sent Ambassador-at-Large Philip C. Jessup to the Far East in the hope that he might pick up some ideas for a positive policy-or at least a positive statement. Last week in Seoul, Jessup found that the best he could utter was a strong negative. Nettled at Korean criticism of U.S. negativism, Jessup responded by taking the Koreans to task for failing to achieve certain U.S.-sponsored reforms, e.g., the stabilization of Korea's tottering monetary system...
Undercover History. Phil Jessup's latest excursion into public life was certain to enter him in his colleagues' history books. Hardly had he settled down in his small paneled office in the State Department before he was making undercover trips to Manhattan to work out the settlement of the Berlin blockade with Russia's Yakov Malik. In the pale-pink glow of hopefulness that followed, he served Acheson as alternate chief of delegation at the Paris four-power conference, proved to himself once again that the Russians had altered their basic strategy not one whit...
...diplomat with a lawyer's incisive mind, Jessup was picked as the ideal man to thread a way through the evasions and admissions of the State Department's shaky 1,054-page white paper on China, turned out a report that put the best face on the U.S.'s weak and vacillating policy in Asia. Then he turned to an even tougher task. As head of a three-man committee, he set to auditing the entire U.S. Far Eastern policy...
Final Mission. He had hoped to wind up the job by February and get back to Columbia for the spring semester, but Secretary Acheson urged him to take on one final mission. This week Envoy Jessup boarded ship in San Francisco for a five-week swing through the Far East to talk to General MacArthur in Japan, visit Korea, Formosa, the Philippines, and end up in Thailand where he will preside over an extraordinary conference of U.S. chiefs of mission in southeast Asia...
...results of that tour the State Department was expected to base some of its most critical decisions of 1950. If Diplomat Jessup, who had sometimes questioned State's wait-until-the-dust-settles policy, could provide the basis for a revitalized U.S. policy in Asia, his seat in the little paneled office in the State Department would be even harder to fill...