Show Tilte Case of Mr by Max Editor Publisher THE REPORTER The extraordinary thing about the campaign against Secretary is that nearly everybody who has been attacking him has hidden behind somebody He seems to have lost the confidence of the people because somebody has heard somebody say that he has lost the confidence of the There has been something horribly unfair about the whole unfair to Acheson and unfair to the American A few weeks before the Chinese Communists struck in Acheson with extreme boldness established a new line of offense and of defense at the United Nations At long the Russian veto in the ity Council could not paralyze uny the nations would to reduce v 1 long bank- of h-H turned Into a battle of the still be offensive end the was the political line that Aches n had wr by enemy in in r in the councils of the II- in the end in otin-n The of A victory v r-n The in had been have his but when it we had suffered a military I political they had only this to must Of- Fettered Diplomacy The Korean disaster epitomizes the plight Acheson has been in since the day he took All the time he has had to cope with that Messianic universalism that makes us sponsor principles to be applied in the and pledge ourselves to resist aggression it may All the time he has had to conduct a foreign policy that he knew was backed up by inadequate military And all the time he has had to defend himself an unmerciful in Diplomacy can utilize capitalize on or hide At times Acheson produced magnificent His diplomacy capitalized on the achievement of the Marshall Plan by establishing the Atlantic Ivan the doctrine of resistance to aggression it may became nearly workable in his reform of the U.N. that have made the General Assembly the active instrument of the non-Communist nations all united against Communist Yet all this time live major effort of Secretary wa to gain enough elbow nop for We development of a global anti-Communist policy of total as He has been like a man in high logarithmic who is forced constantly to taki time off and explain to his what is the sum total of two anc This peculiar situation cramped the eloquence of one oi the most articulate Constantly accused of being alien to his people of not speaking their h has made it a point to express himself in the plainest when a friend of his was judged guilty of a terrible he found that the most appropriate way to say what he fell was to repeat the simple words of That was the high mark of his Even now whenever episode is recalled many people who profess to worship Cod throw their Bibles nt The of Policy j Aches on 1 superior qualifications have been put to test under entire y unprecedented circumstances the circumstances of a ration that hr the first time in Its history has play n major role in the Internal affairs nl many und for the lime its decided by the way its people Vote Bt ho if than by the ss or failure til its policies Acheson has the Secretary of Stale to realize that even the most generous i of postwar economic assistants are of limited for we are engaged for keeps in a struggle of unlimited scope This struggle may become one of but cannot by any stretch of of arms alone We need political skill as much al weapons to keep on our side men in other countries who ma bear weapons with Acheson has organized the kind of Department that is fit to tackle these Perhaps there has if not a certain apprehension in the country toward this man Acheson who has been out in the fantastic unroll ing world and not always at ease in telling the people what he has seen or the experiences he has gone The people are still unprepared for this entirely new situation of threatening world as Acheson himself probably was at By founding the Atlantic by reforming the United he established the pattern of an American foreign policy that other people's recklessness has now seriously Whether or not the Secretary remains in office his enemies will not have the satisfaction of demolishing his character or achievement for the man who could go through such an ordeal and grow with his job has acquired a stature quite independent of any job he may |