Word: stating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sleety Washington rain, two black official limousines rolled down 21st Street, driving well beyond the main entrance of the Department of State to turn sharply down a side ramp into State's naked concrete loading basement. Burly Defense Secretary Louis Johnson stepped from his Cadillac into a private elevator, punched the button for the fifth floor. Across the basement General Omar Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, dressed in civilian grey, got out of his car, strode briskly across the floor and got into a second private elevator...
...true that the State Department always plays along with a de facto government, when it doesn't approve of it. Example: while the U.S. technically recognizes Franco Spain, it sends no ambassador there...
Within the minute, both stepped into the soft-lighted office of the Secretary of State, appearing as though from behind sliding panels from the neatly disguised elevator recesses in his suite. Dean Acheson, who was waiting, waved his two visitors to a soft red leather davenport. At that moment, only his closest personal aide knew they were there. For an hour and 50 minutes, before they departed in the same clandestine fashion, the two chief architects of U.S. defense talked with the chief of diplomatic strategy. They were meeting together because, after months of inaction and hesitation, Harry Truman...
...lawyers and the State Department argued that recognition meant neither approval nor disapproval, since the U.S. already recognizes Communist Russia and all the Communist satellites in Eastern Europe. Besides, the U.S. had just recognized the unsavory Arias government in Panama, while making clear that it disapproved...
...China was concerned, State Department Mimeograph machines could churn out legal opinions until the Amazon froze without altering one fact: recognition of the Reds would be received through the world as a major change in U.S. policy, with enormous gain of "face" for Peking. It was the kind of problem honest men differed on: the influential Far Eastern division in State wanted to recognize; so far, Harry Truman was against. Most Congressmen who had spoken up at all were also against recognition. These were the arguments...