Research Catalog

Title

• Present at the creation; my years in the State Department [by] Dean Acheson.

Author

Acheson, Dean, 1893-1971

Publication

New York, Norton [1969]

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Additional Authors

• Chandler, Alfred D. (Alfred Dupont), 1918-2007
• Mazal Holocaust Collection TxSaTAM
• Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012

Description

xiv, 798 p. illus.; 25 cm.

Summary

"As autobiography (this book) is enthralling, as history indispensable, as a manual on government and diplomacy invaluable". -- Wallace Carroll, New York Times Book Review.

Subject

• 1933-1953
• Acheson, Dean, 1893-1971
• Diplomacy
• Geschichte 1941-1953
• United States > Foreign relations > 1933-1945
• United States > Foreign relations > 1945-1953

Genre/Form

Association copies (Provenance)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part one. Years of Learning: Assistant Secretary of State, 1941-1945. Enlistment for the War to Come ; The "Old" State Department ; The Year We Held Our Breath ; Retrospect ; Economic Warfare at Home ; Economic Warfare Abroad : Deadlock ; Economic Warfare Abroad : Deadlock Ends ; Preparation for an Unknown World ; The International Conference Stage ; The Bretton Woods Agreements ; A Change of Secretaries and of Jobs ; Chief Lobbyist for State ; Success, Disenchantment, and Resignation -- Part two. Action Begins: Under Secretary of State, August 1945-June 1947. A New Job and Widening Responsibilities ; Trouble in High Places ; Washington Agent for the Marshall Mission : Phase One ; The Acheson-Lilienthal Report ; The Department Muffs its Intelligence Role ; The Quebec Agreement ; The Puzzle of Palestine ; Trouble Brews in Washington ; Trouble Breaks in Europe ; Washington Agent for the Marshall Mission : Phase Two ; General Marshall Takes Over ; The Truman Doctrine ; The Crisis Broadens : Birth of the Marshall Plan ; Mustered Out -- Part three. Years of Responsibility: Secretary of State, 1949-1953. Section A. Decisions Were Made Fast in 1949 ; Recalled to Active Duty ; The World that Lay Before Us ; An Eventful Spring ; The North Atlantic Treaty: An Open Covenant Openly Arrived At ; Allied Policy Toward Germany ; The Foreign Ministers Meet in Paris ; Summer Brings Difficult Decisions ; Anglo-American Atomic Cooperation Reviewed ; Devaluation of the Pound ; More Meetings at Home and Abroad ; A Reappraisal of Policies ; Section B. Problems Came Faster in 1950 ; The Attack of the Primitives Begins ; The Attack Mounts ; A New Definition of Foreign Policy ; Europe and the Schuman Plan ; Balanced Collective Forces for Europe ; War in Korea : The Outbreak ; War in Korea : The First Crisis ; September Decisions ; September Surprises ; October Odysseys ; "An Entirely New War" ; December Despondency ; Section C. 1951: Year of Troubles and Progress ; Calming Worries at Home and to the South ; Double Trouble in Iran ; Attempts to Stabilize the Korean War ; The Relief of General Mac Arthur ; The Move for an Armistice in Korea ; Peace with Japan ; NATO in Stagnation ; Egypt and the Middle East Command ; Ottawa and Excursions Without Alarums ; The "Disarmament Assembly" ; NATO Meets in Rome ; Section D. 1952: Success and Failure at The End ; The Churchill Visit ; Death of a King ; Four Ministers Meet in London ; Lisbon ; Once More Unto the Breach ; Bonn and Paris ; Korea : Frustration, Riot, and Revolt ; A Sentimental Journey ; Indochina ; A Second Try in Iran ; Election Summer ; An Open Covenant Openly Connived Against ; Changing the Guard ; Last Farewells -- Part four. Retrospection in Tranquility. Summing Up.

ISBN

039307448X

LCCN

^^^69014692^//r83

OCLC

22970

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library