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...Paris, Secretary of State Dean Acheson came to quick agreement with France's Foreign Minister Robert Schuman on deeding additional grants of power to the young French-blessed Emperor Bao Dai. Then Acheson flashed Washington to speed a $15 million program for military aid to the 180,000 French and native troops already locked in battle with the Indo-Chinese Communists. (The money had long been available in the $75 million that Congress had pressed on the Administration seven months ago for containment of Communism in Asia.) Within a few weeks the first shipment of tactical aircraft should...
...Democrats gathered 10 governors, 56 Congressmen and assorted politicos for dinners, panels and conferences, topped off by "bringing the Government to the people," a first-time-in-history meeting of the U.S. Cabinet in public (though Acheson, Johnson and Snyder were missing)-fully televised from the stage of the Civic Opera House.* Then came the big parade...
Around the blue baize table in London's gloomy Lancaster House, the Western Big Three Foreign Ministers conferred for three days. Dean Acheson, crisp, clear and didactic, drove home his sharp points with a wagging forefinger. Britain's ailing Ernest Bevin, chomping away at his dentures, was his usual solid and grumpy self. France's Robert Schuman punctuated his speeches with faint smiles and exquisite little gestures of courtesy; he sat modestly hunched over the table, as if he were the least important man in the room...
...Cabinet (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS-TV). The first public meeting of the Cabinet (Secretary of State Acheson absent), from Chicago where they are part of the cast of President Truman's "nonpolitical" tour (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...Questions. At press conferences, Tassman Todd never questions Secretary of State Dean Acheson, though he does question State, Department press aides Mike McDermott and Lincoln White. He never goes "upstairs" (as do most correspondents) to consult State Department officials about specific problems or individual stories...