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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week the atmosphere at the Winter White House began to quicken. Mrs. Truman and Margaret prepared to return to Washington. The President and his advisers got ready to draft the State of the Union Address, the Budget Message and the President's Economic Report. Written within sight of the sand, sun and sea, they would still have to bear, for delivery in January, the proper tone of heaviness and contention, so necessary to state messages...
...there nothing else to be done in China but to wait, as the State Department urged, "until the dust settles...
Impatient with the State Department's attitude (definable as doing nothing and trying to be proud of it), New Jersey's conscientious Senator H. Alexander Smith, one of the strongest Republican supporters of the bipartisan foreign policy, had boarded a troop ship last September and sailed for Yokohama. He conferred with Douglas MacArthur and spent three weeks (at his own expense) in eastern Asia. Last week he made public his recommendations, which had at least the merit of being a positive attempt to deal with a tragic situation while it could still be dealt with...
...word "face" loomed large in Secretary of State Dean Acheson's week, and his own face showed that he wasn't happy about...
Dean Acheson tried to give an answer of sorts at his weekly press conference. The U.S. did not recognize the Nationalist blockade, he said, because the Nationalists could not make it effective. But the State Department wished fervently that U.S. ships would quit trying to run the blockade. Acheson added that there was a difference between having a legal right and going to all possible lengths to enforce legal rights...