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Secretary Acheson's claim that Emmanuel cancelled his application before the consul could act doesn't tell the whole story. Acheson's assistants themselves state that Emmanuel was "found in-admissable under our laws." Although Emmanuel was never formally refused a visa, he almost certainly would have been unless the State Department's strategy was to stall him until he was forced to abandon voluntarily his U.S. trip...
...J.C.S. had met all day the day before and that there was considerable excitement about the meeting. He also saw General Omar Bradley, head of the J.C.S. leaving the Pentagon in civilian clothes, and learned that Bradley was off to attend a meeting with Defense Secretary Louis Johnson in Acheson's office at the State Department...
Shepley promptly dispatched John Anspacher, who had recently come to TIME from the United Press, to State. Anspacher found Secretary Johnson's car and chauffeur outside a basement entrance that leads to one of several private elevators to Acheson's office. He waited there, talking to the chauffeur, until Johnson emerged. The Secretary would confirm nothing more than that an important meeting had taken place. General Bradley left the building by another exit...
When the President had finished, he said he would answer no questions about Formosa: reporters would have to get the answers from the Secretary of State. This hot potato Dean Acheson caught with obvious distaste, although it was he who had first put it in the fire. It was Acheson who persuaded Harry Truman to overrule the Joint Chiefs of Staff on their decision to send military advisers to Formosa (TIME...
...control by "stages," with destruction of existing atomic weapons as the final "stage"; 3) management and operation of all atomic energy production facilities the world by the Commission. These points are basically those asked by Bernard Baruch, speaking for the U.S. in 1946, and originally requested by the Acheson-Lilienthal report earlier that year...