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Acheson seemed to be answering-and accepting, in a reserved sort of way-the vigorous call of Statesman John Foster Dulles for meeting Communist aggression "by retaliatory action of our own fashioning" (TIME, May 19). Said the Secretary: "There has been a widespread misunderstanding that what we are seeking to create is a static containment situation. This is not at all the case...
...have used the long stalemate to build up their forces, their antiaircraft fire and their air force to the point where the U.S. probably cannot inflict enough damage in Korea to make the Reds give in on the prisoner issue or any other issue. Last week in Paris, U.S. Statesman John Foster Dulles, seven weeks retired as State Department adviser on the Far East, had an answer...
...been anonymous long enough. They raised more than $300,000 and commissioned architects to design a tribute. Last week, on a triangular plot across from the Gallery, a classically simple bronze fountain was dedicated. A nearby bench of granite bears the inscription: "Andrew W. Mellon. Financier-Industralist-Statesman . . . This fountain is a tribute from friends...
...Blazes. The new candidate who was bowing into the field hardly seemed the man to resolve the dilemma. Harry Truman sent a message praising Averell Harriman's "talents as a statesman, as an administrator, and as a great liberal deeply devoted to the fundamental purposes of the Democratic Party and to the welfare of the American people." Harriman, the pleasantly haggard millionaire who has been a New-Fair Dealer since he became an NRA administrator in 1934, stepped forward to do his best. He spoke in loud, firm tones: "Foreign and domestic policies are indivisible ... If the voices...
...Elder Statesman Herbert Hoover knows just how the Italians feel about radio (see above). At a dinner in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria honoring his boyhood friend, Lee De Forest, whose three-element tube made radio possible, Hoover lamented that the invention had also made possible the broadcasting of "the worst music on earth-and political speeches." Said the ex-President: "Perhaps the worst of his results is the singing commercial . . . And then there is the fellow who cannot sponsor a program without periodic interruption of huckster chatter into the midst of a great drama." Hoover urged De Forest...