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...responded readily when Undersecretary of State Dean Acheson had suggested a review of U.S. policy. His statement had been cleared for facts by the Army and Navy, and given an O.K. by General Marshall...
...faithful, and finally must keep man-power where Washington thinks it belongs--on the farm, not in the army. Under such conditions approval for relief supplies could conceivably depend on the quality of a secretary's morning cup of coffee. Even the three countries Under Secretary of State Dean Acheson publicly stated would probably need aid--Italy, Austria, and Greece--don't fit the bill. Of the three, only Italy has not been charged with manipulating food for political ends, and the Italians themselves don't think distribution has been efficient or even kept entirely away from the black market...
...other sections of the U.S. public would protest shutting off relief supplies to needy peoples (whether their governments were friendly to the U.S. or not), the State Department proposed an alternative plan: purchase of U.S. food by individual food-short nations. Perhaps significantly, U.S. Acting Secretary of State Dean Acheson mentioned only three countries-Italy, Austria and Greece-as examples of possible beneficiaries under this plan; all three are outside the Russian orbit...
Nine out of ten nations speaking in U.N.'s Economic and Financial Committee approved LaGuardia's plan rather than Acheson's. Naturally, Russia was one of the nine. "Food," cried Andrei Gromyko, must never be used by any nation "as a means of reaping political or other advantages." The U.S., he suggested, must tighten its belt...
Public Service Commission in 1933 became the guiding spirit and director of TVA. He was chairman of the committee which prepared the Lilienthal-Acheson plan for international atomic control...