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Acheson and policy
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.
Brought back as assistant secretary of state in 1941, Acheson implemented much of United States economic policy aiding Great Britain and harming the Axis Powers.
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.
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.
" Even after he assumed office in 1945 he was a principal actor in public policy, serving on President Truman's 1947 Committee on Civil Rights, the United Nations Collective Measures Committee in 1951, and as consultant to Secretary of State Acheson on disarmament.
The economic policy subcommittee was led by Dean Acheson, and the economic reconstruction subcommittee by Adolph Berle.

Acheson and wrote
In 1946, as chairman of a special committee to prepare a plan for the international control of atomic energy, he wrote the Acheson – Lilienthal report.

Acheson and Truman's
Bill was married to Mary Acheson, the daughter of Truman's Secretary of State Dean Acheson.
America ’ s “ betrayal ” of the League of Nations was only the first in a series of US actions — over war debts, naval rivalry, the 1931-2 Manchurian crisis and the Depression — that convinced British leaders that the United States could not be relied on .’ Equally, as President Truman's secretary of state, Dean Acheson, recalled: ' Of course a unique relation existed between Britain and America — our common language and history ensured that.
During the 1947 session of the Delta Council, Dean Acheson ( Under-Secretary of State in Truman's administration ) delivered a speech on campus that unveiled the Marshall Plan, detailing postwar relief for Europe.

Acheson and 1947
On June 30, 1947 Acheson received the Medal for Merit from President Truman.
The heir presumptive is the present holder's first cousin Nicholas Hope Carter Acheson ( born 1947 ).
* Sam Hanna Acheson, " George Bannerman Dealey ," Southwestern Historical Quarterly 50 ( January 1947 ).
Wisner was recruited in 1947 by Dean Acheson to join the State Department's Office of Occupied Territories.

Acheson and Congress
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.
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.

Acheson and for
Where Acheson had fought a gallant losing battle for the Department, Dulles fed the crocodile with his subordinates.
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.
" James Acheson and Stuart Craig were also praised for their work, with Sheila Benson of the Los Angeles Times stating that " the film's details of costuming ( by The Last Emperors James Acheson ) and production design ( by Stuart Craig of Gandhi and The Mission ) are ravishing.
Dangerous Liaisons won three Academy Awards out of seven nominations, for Best Adapted Screenplay ( Christopher Hampton ), Best Costume Design ( James Acheson ), and Best Art Direction ( Stuart Craig and Gérard James ).
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, President John F. Kennedy called upon Acheson for advice, bringing him into the executive committee ( ExComm ), a strategic advisory group.
At that time, a new tradition of bright law students clerking for the U. S. Supreme Court had been begun by Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, for whom Acheson clerked for two terms from 1919 to 1921.
Acheson was the main designer of the military alliance NATO, and signed the pact for the United States.
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.
Critics blamed Acheson for what they called the " loss of China " and launched several years of organized opposition to Acheson's tenure ; Acheson ridiculed his opponents and called this period in his outspoken memoirs " The Attack of the Primitives.
Congressman Richard Nixon, who later as President would call on Acheson for advice, ridiculed " Acheson's College of Cowardly Communist Containment.
" This criticism grew very loud after Acheson refused to ' turn his back on Alger Hiss ' when the latter was accused of being a Communist spy, and convicted ( of perjury for denying he was a spy ).
Acheson came under fire from congressional Republicans for being " soft on communism " at the end of 1950, culminating in their resolving unanimously on December 15, 1950, that he be removed from office.
* Annotated bibliography for Dean Acheson from the Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues
In 1966 Gray secured the support of philanthropist Lila Acheson Wallace ( 1889-1984 ), who offered $ 150, 000 to the International Fund for Monuments and UNESCO for this project.
Restoration won Academy Awards for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration for Eugenio Zanetti and Best Costume Design for James Acheson.

Acheson and aid
Acheson designed the economic aid program to Europe that became known as the Marshall Plan.

Acheson and Greece
Turkey's support for partition through the forced displacement of populations is revealed in the Galo Plaza report of 1965 and in its demands during negotiations with the British over Cyprus independence and the so-called Acheson plan which would have divided Cyprus between Turkey and Greece.

Acheson and speech
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, a former US Secretary of State, also chose this moment to challenge publicly the special relationship and marginalise the British contribution to the Western alliance in his West Point speech of 1962:
" Dean Acheson was even more blunt ; in a speech at West Point he stated " Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.

Acheson and which
In the summer of 1969, Wohlstetter arranged for his students Wolfowitz, Wilson, and Richard Perle to join the Committee to Maintain a Prudent Defense Policy which was set up by Cold War architects Paul Nitze and Dean Acheson.
As Acheson later remarked: " Korea ... created the stimulus which made action.
He was defeated in his re-election bid in 1948, after which he accepted an appointment by President Harry S. Truman as a delegate to the United Nations General Assembly and served as a special assistant to Secretary of State Dean Acheson during the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ).
He was co-author with Dean Acheson ( later Secretary of State ) of the 1946 Report on the International Control of Atomic Energy which outlined possible methods for international control of nuclear weapons.
President Truman later ordered John Foster Dulles, then Foreign Policy Advisor to Secretary of State Dean Acheson, to carry out his decision on neutralizing Taiwan in drafting the Treaty of Peace with Japan of 1951 which excluded the participation of both the ROC and PRC.
Born in Washington, Pennsylvania, he was the inventor of the Acheson process, which is still used to make Silicon carbide ( carborundum ) and later a manufacturer of carborundum and graphite.

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