Word: rusk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both Corners of the Mouth. Contrary to the myth that it was Harry Truman's own bold decision to fight in Korea, the idea actually originated in the State Department. Acheson's director of Far East affairs, Dean Rusk, and Army Secretary Frank Pace were dining out the night the first message arrived from Seoul. Rusk saw the hazards and also the possibilities of the situation. Russia at the moment was boycotting the Security Council. With Acheson's permission, Rusk got Trygve Lie started on calling a Security Council meeting. Acheson, meanwhile, was convincing the President...
...Albatross. The case against Dean Acheson was based primarily on his Asiatic policy. Assistant Secretary Dean Rusk uses a phrase-"the error of the fatal flaw." Says Rusk: "There are probably some major problems of international relations that are beyond human capacity to think through. There are hundreds of major premises pulling in all directions ... The policymaker is constantly haunted by the error of the fatal flaw...
...week's end, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Edward G. Miller arranged a half-hour meeting in Washington at which 20 Latin American ambassadors were briefed on the Korean crisis by Dean Rusk, Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs. But by then the Latin American mood seemed to have leveled off into a kind of lethargic apprehension. A cross-country auto race commanded bigger headlines in Argentina than President Truman's statement on the use of the atom bomb (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Brazilians went back to their futebol games. Korea still seemed very far away. There...
...succeed him, State appointed Dean Rusk, 41, Georgia-born graduate of Davidson College and also a onetime Rhodes scholar. Rusk, who was deputy chief of staff of U.S. Army forces in the China-Burma-India Theater, joined State in 1946, helped handle hot policy questions in U.N., rose to Deputy Under Secretary, now was on State's hottest spot...
Honored at the first annual National Book Award dinner in Manhattan, for books which the U.S. publishing trade voted the most distinguished U.S. fiction, non-fiction and poetry of 1949: Novelist Nelson Algren, 40, of Chicago, for The Man with the Golden Arm; Biographer Dr. Ralph L Rusk, 61, of Manhattan, for The Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson; Dr. William Carlos Williams, 66, pediatrician-poet of Rutherford, N.J., for two books of verse, Paterson, Book III and Selected Poems...