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From 1941 to 1943, Meltzer served in the State Department, serving as Special Assistant to Assistant Secretary of State Dean Acheson and as Acting Chief of the Foreign Funds Control Division. Meltzer worked successfully to help persuade the State and Justice departments to abandon a restrictive interpretation of the Neutrality Act in order to permit delivery of Lend-Lease shipments to American allies, and he helped to draft the initial Lend-Lease agreements with allied nations. (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
GEORGE H. LESSER: Worldviews turned upside down Jan 31, 2007
PARIS. -- In October 1962, as the Cuban missile crisis was coming to a boil, hurling everybody then alive to the edge of thermonuclear abyss, President Kennedy dispatched former Secretary of State Dean Acheson to Europe to tell our allies what was happening and what we were doing about it. In the Elysee Palace in Paris, Acheson offered to show the French president U-2 photographs of the Soviet missile sites. (Washington Times)
A NATO for the Middle EastWalter Isaacson asks: What would George Marshall and Dean Acheson be doing about the global threat of terrorism? Something bold and creative Jan 28, 2007
What would George Marshall and Dean Acheson be doing now. At the top of their list, I suspect, would be forging a new version of NATO. They might call it MATO: the Mideast Antiterrorism Organization, a military, police, intelligence and security mutual-defense alliance between the West and our moderate allies in the Middle East. (Time.com)
Go With God: Jan 26, 2007
The Washington Post memorializes him, writing that "[H]e brought to daily commentary a touch of wit, a and a brave willingness to launch himself occasionally into flights of utter absurdity that produced some of his best moments." And the Baltimore Sun recalls that Dean Acheson once referred to Buchwald as "the in English since Pope and Swift." (NPR has of Buchwald on All Things Considered, as well as a final interview with him last June. . (Slate)
China begins to define the rules Jan 20, 2007
famous words of the late US secretary of state Dean Acheson to then-president Harry Truman. Ivanov held up a mirror noir of our own teetering times. (Asia Times Online)
Art Buchwald — columnist Jan 19, 2007
Nixon loathed him; but Dean Acheson called him the greatest satirist in English since Pope and Swift. Buchwald s private life was not always as carefree as his columns. (TimesOnline)
Pulitzer columnist laughed at life, death Jan 19, 2007
But Dean Acheson, President Harry S. Truman's secretary of state, called Mr. Buchwald "the greatest satirist in English since Pope and Swift.". After returning to the United States in 1962, Mr. Buchwald became a fixture in Washington political circles - his phone number was always listed - and wrote an estimated 8,000 columns during his career. (SunSpot.net)
In Our Pages Jan 12, 2007
WASHINGTON: Former Secretary of State Dean Acheson opposed President Eisenhower's Middle East doctrine yesterday [Jan. 11] as "too far hazardous a course to even be hinted at." Mr. Acheson told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that President Eisenhower's request for stand-by authority to use United States military forces against any Communist aggression in the Middle East "sounds perilously like another approach to the brink." Mr. Acheson, former President Truman's Secretary of State, said... (International Herald Tribune)
Roberta Wohlstetter, 94; wrote Pearl Harbor study Jan 11, 2007
Admirers included former Secretary of State Dean Acheson, who called it "perfect in its scholarship and presentation.". It offered no magic bullet. (Los Angeles Times)
Taking the Vietnam out of Iraq Jan 10, 2007
Johnson says that on the same day as the confident Gen Abrams reported, Dean Acheson, a former secretary of state, said "he felt that we could no longer do what we set out to do in the time available; we had to disengage". Most of the Wise Men agreed. (BBC News)
Iraq 'surge' has parallels Jan 9, 2007
Truman also instructed Marshall and his deputy, Dean Acheson, to make necessary accommodations with Sen. Arthur Vandenberg, the Michigan Republican who chaired the Foreign Relations Committee. (Buffalo News -- Opinion)
A surge of past parallels Jan 7, 2007
Marshall and his deputy, Dean Acheson, to make necessary. accommodations with Sen. (North County Times)
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