Word: rusk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reluctantly and with genuine regret," Harry Truman last week announced the resignation of Dean Rusk, 42, Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs. In four years, Rusk jumped up the State Department ladder from an assistant division chief to a spot as a top policymaker. Rusk and Secretary of the Army Frank Pace alerted Truman in the critical hours of June 26, 1950, before the President decided to order MacArthur to meet Communist aggression in Korea. Rusk's new job: president of the Rockefeller Foundation...
...days after Rusk's resignation, George McGhee, 39, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern, South Asian and African Affairs, exchanged one of the hottest and broadest portfolios in Washington for appointment as Ambassador to Turkey...
...Temporarily, the State Department is filling both McGhee's and Rusk's posts with career diplomats: Middle East Expert Burton Y. Berry and Far East Specialist John M. Allison. Probable permanent successor to McGhee: West Pointer Henry Byroade, 38, an Army colonel on detached service, who is now running State's German Affairs Bureau...
...Furthermore, even competent correspondents who are constantly being "guided" by off-the-record conferences occasionally miss real news. For example, State Department correspondents had so often been confidentially told that the U.S. planned to get tougher toward Communist China that they missed the story completely when Assistant Secretary Dean Rusk finally made the "get-tough" speech (TIME...
...asserting that no change has been made. This was obviously what was happening in Foggy Bottom: State's Asia policy had been going through a slow strengthening over the past several months. In all of Dean Acheson's denials last week, he did not once deny that Rusk and Dulles had correctly stated State policy. His principal objection seemed to be that they should not have made it so clear...