Word: rusk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...press conference. He knew what was coming. The 130 reporters who crowded into the room last week had carefully studied two forthright speeches on China made by top State Department officials a few days before (TIME, May 28), and were ready with a barrage of questions. Assistant Secretary Dean Rusk had said that Chiang Kaishek, and not the Communists, was the authentic representative of China's millions; Rusk also hinted that the U.S. stood ready to help any revolt against China's "foreign masters." State's Republican Consultant (with rank of ambassador) John Foster Dulles had added...
...smoothly scooped up the ball and tossed it back. Now, the usual way to answer that kind of a question, he said, is to say, I'm glad you asked that question. Acheson's audience laughed appreciatively. Then, Acheson continued: there was no new policy, and the Rusk speech didn't indicate any; it was simply a restatement of the Administration's long-standing views on China. Did Acheson think the words were well chosen? Now that wasn't kind, said the Secretary; he wouldn't attempt to criticize the literary composition...
Actually, neither Rusk's nor Dulles' speech had been read in advance by Acheson, though the Secretary knew the speeches were to be made. Such clearances aren't necessary, a State Department man explained, unless you intend to say something new, in which case the speech should be submitted to an Acheson helper named Jeffrey Kitchen. Rusk had thought he was only restating the obvious, and was as surprised as anyone else when the British Foreign Office began expressing alarm, and the State Department issued a hasty handout saying that China policy is unchanged...
Outside China or inside, the U.S. would support those who opposed this foreign invasion. Said Rusk: "We can tell our friends in China that the U.S. will not acquiesce in the degradation which is being forced upon them...
Master & Disciple. Rusk compared Mao's government to those of another foreign invader-the Japanese puppet regimes of Manchukuo and Nanking. Another speaker, Ambassador at Large John Foster Dulles, the State Department's Republican adviser, bolstered this thesis with evidence. He reminded his listeners that Mao had repeatedly testified to his "master-disciple relationship" with Stalin, had spent nearly three months in Moscow in 1949 before returning to call on all Southeast Asia to seek liberation through "armed struggle" as part of the "forces headed by the Soviet Union." Added Dulles: "No one in his senses could assert...