With its power to investigate, the Senate can paralyze the Secretary by keeping him in a state of perpetual testimony before committees, as it did with Dean Acheson.

When he returned to Washington to give his report, Secretary of State Dean Acheson gave Capra his commendation for " virtually single-handedly forestalling a possible Communist take-over of Indian films.

In contrast, Dean Acheson, an Under Secretary of State, was dispatched to contact the European media, especially the British media, and the speech was read in its entirety on the BBC.

** Dean Acheson, United States Secretary of State ( b. 1893 )

* 1949 Dean Acheson becomes Secretary of State

Diệm returned to the United States to continue lobbying and in 1951 was able to secure an audience with Secretary of State Dean Acheson.

In the words of Secretary of State Dean Acheson, who testified before Congress, Western Europe needed assistance against Soviet “ encroachment .” The measure was intended to signal Washington ’ s resolve to allies and to the Kremlin that the United States was capable of and committed to containing communism globally, even while it fought a protracted land war in Korea.

The newly appointed United States Secretary of State Dean Acheson pushed the Netherlands government into negotiations earlier recommended by the United Nations but until then defied by the Netherlands.

There were special groups on counter-insurgency ( chaired by General Taylor ), on Vietnam, and the Berlin crisis, the latter presided over by former Secretary of State Dean Acheson.

When Secretary William H. Woodin fell ill, Acheson suddenly found himself acting secretary despite his ignorance of finance.

" Acheson often found himself acting Secretary during the Secretary's frequent overseas trips, and during this period he cemented a close relationship with President Truman.

In 1949, Acheson was appointed Secretary of State.

Both he and Secretary of Defense George Marshall came under attack from men such as Joseph McCarthy ; Acheson became a byword to some Americans, who tried to equate containment with appeasement.

Supreme Court Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson was briefly mentioned as the new Secretary of State and Acheson as the new Chief Justice.

In presidential systems, the legislature may occasionally pass motions of no confidence, as was done by the United States Congress to Secretary of State Dean Acheson in the 1950s and was contemplated against Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, but these motions are of symbolic effect only.

Hazlitt became well known both through his articles and by frequently debating prominent politicians on the radio, including: Vice President Henry A. Wallace, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, and U. S. Senators Paul Douglas and Hubert H. Humphrey, the future Vice President.

After U. S. mediation had failed several times to bring about a settlement, American Secretary of State Dean Acheson concluded that the British were " destructive and determined on a rule or ruin policy in Iran.

Secretary of State James Byrnes, who a year earlier had told physicist Leo Szilard that a public demonstration of the bomb might make Russia " more manageable " in Europe, now argued the opposite: that further display of U. S. nuclear power could harden Russia's position against acceptance of the Acheson – Lilienthal Plan.

Johnson's obstinate attitude toward the State Department role in the preparation of this paper adversely affected his relations with both Secretary of State Dean Acheson and Truman.

In April 1951 Conant had been approached by the Secretary of State, Dean Acheson, about replacing John J. McCloy as United States High Commissioner for Germany, but had declined.

* Dean Acheson, Secretary of State under President Truman, presidential advisor to Johnson

Kennan's influence rapidly declined under Secretary of State Dean Acheson, the successor of the ailing George Marshall in 1949 and 1950.

Bill was married to Mary Acheson, the daughter of Truman's Secretary of State Dean Acheson.

Hoover kept the intercepts — America's greatest counterintelligence secret — in a locked safe in his office, choosing not to inform President Truman, Attorney General J. Howard McGrath, or two Secretaries of State — Dean Acheson and General George Marshall — while they held office.

* 1970: Present At The Creation: My Years in the State Department by Dean Acheson

In the late 1940s Acheson came under heavy attack over Truman's policy toward China, and for Acheson's defense of State Department employees ( such as Alger Hiss ) accused during the anti-Communist Red Scare investigations of Senator Joseph McCarthy and others.

In 1944, Acheson attended the Bretton Woods Conference as the head delegate from the State department.

Later, in 1945, Harry S. Truman selected Acheson as his Undersecretary of United States Department of State ; he retained this position working under Secretaries of State Edward Stettinius, Jr., James F. Byrnes, and George Marshall.

This speculation died down when President Truman retained Acheson at the State Department.

Although Johnson publicly professed belief that " the advance guard in the campaign for peace that America wages today must be the State Department ," his disagreements with Acheson and his restrictions on DoD contacts with the State Department persisted until the realities of the Korean War caused his fall from favor with the White House.

His 12 books include the critically acclaimed Acheson: The Secretary of State Who Created the American World ( 1998 ), the definitive biography of former Secretary of State Dean Acheson.

* Acheson: The Secretary Of State Who Created The American World ( 1998 Simon & Schuster )

Dean Gooderham Acheson ( April 11, 1893 – October 12, 1971 ) was an American statesman and lawyer.

Acheson implemented the Lend-Lease policy that helped re-arm Great Britain and the American / British / Dutch oil embargo that cut off 95 percent of Japanese oil supplies and escalated the crisis with Japan in 1941.

Acheson devised the policy and wrote Truman's 1947 request to Congress for aid to Greece and Turkey, a speech which stressed the dangers of totalitarianism rather than Soviet aggression and marked the fundamental change in American foreign policy that became known as the Truman Doctrine.

Acheson believed the best way to contain Stalin's Communism and prevent future European conflict was to restore economic prosperity to Western Europe, to encourage interstate cooperation there, and to help the American economy by making its trading partners richer.

Critics of Acheson have argued that the speech seemed to say that South Korea was beyond the American defense line, so that American support for the new Syngman Rhee government in South Korea would be limited.

American Visions of Europe: Franklin D. Roosevelt, George F. Kennan, and Dean G. Acheson.

* McNay, John T. Acheson and Empire: The British Accent in American Foreign Policy ( 2001 ) online edition

* Edward Goodrich Acheson, American chemist, inventor of Carborundum

The Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program offers one-year, tuition-free, graduate fellowships.

This resulted in a fight between, on one side, several European nations, the American and the Norwegian delegation, led by Henry Morgenthau and Harry Dexter White ; and on the other side, the British delegation, headed by John Maynard Keynes and Chase Bank representative Dean Acheson, who tried to veto the dissolution of the bank.

The party's strong electoral showing and surge in membership led some observers, including American under-secretary of state Dean Acheson, to believe that a Communist takeover of France was imminent.

I believe I have succeeded in throwing new light on its origins, on the operations of MacArthur and Dulles, on the weaknesses of Truman and Acheson, on the way the Chinese were provoked to intervene, and on the way the truce talks have been dragged out and the issues muddied by American military men hostile from the first to negotiations.

Edward Goodrich Acheson ( March 9, 1856 – July 6, 1931 ) was an American chemist.

As evidence, Thai officials cited the pro-Cambodia vote of an American judge on the court and Acheson ’ s role as Cambodia ’ s advocate ; the U. S. government replied that Acheson was merely acting as a private attorney, engaged by Cambodia.