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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.
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Acheson and implemented
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 and Lend-Lease
During World War II Rostow served in the Lend-Lease Administration as an assistant general counsel, in the State Department as liaison to the Lend-Lease Administration, and as an assistant to then – Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs Dean Acheson.
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.
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.
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 helped
Acheson helped design the Marshall Plan and played a central role in the development of the Truman Doctrine and creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Although Acheson and Truman had hoped that the study would dispel rumors and conjecture, the paper helped to convince many critics that the administration had indeed failed to check the spread of communism in China.
Acheson and Great
" 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.
The United States, Great Britain and Canada called for an international organization to regulate atomic energy and President Truman responded by asking Undersecretary of State Dean Acheson and David Lilienthal to draw up a plan.
Acheson and Britain
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.
Acheson and American
Dean Gooderham Acheson ( April 11, 1893 – October 12, 1971 ) was an American statesman and lawyer.
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.
Acheson: The Secretary of State Who Created the American World.
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.
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 )
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Acheson and British
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.
Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford GCB ( 1 August 1776 – 27 March 1849, Markethill ), styled The Honourable Archibald Acheson from 1790 to 1806 and Lord Acheson from 1806 to 1807, was a British politician who served as Lieutenant-Governor of Lower Canada and Governor General of British North America in the 19th century.
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:
Kenneth Henry Acheson ( born November 27, 1957 in Cookstown, Northern Ireland ) is a British former racing driver who participated during the 1983 and 1985 Formula One seasons for the RAM team.
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.
Arguing in The Hague for Cambodia was former U. S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson, while Thailand ’ s legal team included a former British attorney general, Sir Frank Soskice.
Acheson and crisis
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.
Acheson and with
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.
Where Acheson had fought a gallant losing battle for the Department, Dulles fed the crocodile with his subordinates.
Diệm returned to the United States to continue lobbying and in 1951 was able to secure an audience with Secretary of State Dean Acheson.
" 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.
A lifelong Democrat, Acheson worked at a law firm in Washington D. C., Covington & Burling, often dealing with international legal issues before Franklin Delano Roosevelt appointed him Undersecretary of the United States Treasury in 1933.
And, as late as 1945 or 1946 Acheson sought détente with the Soviet Union.
" 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.
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.
191 pp. Compares Niebuhr with Hans J. Morgenthau, Walter Lippmann, George F. Kennan, and Dean Acheson
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.
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.
Kennan lost influence with Acheson, who in any case relied much less on his staff than Marshall had.
Acheson replaced Kennan with Nitze in January 1950, who was far more comfortable with the calculus of military power.
Mr Acheson goes on to suppose that Chapman's erotic poems were written with a view to gaining Southampton's patronage.
The studies were key sources of evidence for a number of UK Government inquiries such as the Plowden Committee on Primary Education ( 1967 ), the Warnock Committee on Children with Special Educational Needs ( 1978 ), the Finer Committee on One Parent Families ( 1966 – 74 ), the Acheson Independent Inquiry into Inequalities in Health ( 1998 ) and the Moser Committee on Adult Basic Skills ( 1997 – 99 ).
When the sportscar World Championship ended, Acheson switched to GT racing in Japan with the SARD team.
In 1996 Acheson went to the Daytona 24 Hours with the Newcastle United football team liveried Lister Storm.
The Open Space Institute, working with The Nature Conservancy bought it with assistance from the Lila Acheson and Dewitt Wallace Fund for the Hudson Highlands, after the village considered selling the land to developers.
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.
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