Help


[permalink] [id link]
+
Page "Dean Acheson" ¶ 13
from Wikipedia
Edit
Promote Demote Fragment Fix

Some Related Sentences

Acheson and was
Acheson takes a similar view and provides considerable evidence that the early 1880s were in fact a booming period in Nova Scotia and this growth was only undermined towards the end of that decade.
Central to this concept, according to Acheson, was the lack of metropolises in the Maritimes.
Gosford was named in 1839 after Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford – a friend of the then Governor George Gipps.
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.
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.
Dean Gooderham Acheson ( April 11, 1893 – October 12, 1971 ) was an American statesman and lawyer.
Dean Gooderham Acheson was born in Middletown, Connecticut.
His father, Edward Campion Acheson, was an English-born Church of England priest who, after several years in Canada, moved to the U. S. to become Episcopal Bishop of Connecticut.
Acheson attended Groton School and Yale College ( 1912 – 1915 ), where he joined Scroll and Key Society, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and was a brother of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity ( Phi chapter ).
At first Acheson was conciliatory towards Joseph Stalin.
From this point forward, one historian writes, " Acheson was more than ' present at the creation ' of the Cold War ; he was a primary architect.
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.
In 1949, Acheson was appointed Secretary of State.
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.
" 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 ).
Supreme Court Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson was briefly mentioned as the new Secretary of State and Acheson as the new Chief Justice.
He was survived by a son, David C. Acheson, and a daughter, Mary Acheson Bundy, wife of William P. Bundy.

Acheson and main
Acheson is one of the main proponents of this theory.

Acheson and designer
James Acheson, the costume designer, had provided far more wool than was necessary to the knitter, Begonia Pope ; Pope knitted all the wool she was given.
( According to the DVD commentary, the women were supposed to be topless, but costume designer James Acheson stated that fake, uniformly-sized breasts would be funnier than the disparately-sized natural breasts of the dancers, and the women would be more at ease wearing the topless costumes.
According to Baker, the Doctor's scarf was the idea of costume designer James Acheson.

Acheson and military
Acheson replaced Kennan with Nitze in January 1950, who was far more comfortable with the calculus of military power.
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.

Acheson and alliance
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:

Acheson and NATO
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 ).
Secretary of State Dean Acheson chose Cooper as his advisor to meetings that created the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) and at meetings of the NATO Council of Ministers in London in May 1950 and Brussels in December 1950.

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.
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.
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.
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 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.
On June 30, 1947 Acheson received the Medal for Merit from President Truman.
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.
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.

0.662 seconds.