WELCOME TO MR ACHESON

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26124, 29 May 1950, Page 7

WELCOME TO MR ACHESON

Work At Conferences Abroad REPORT TO AIR TRUMAN (Rec. 9.10 p.m.) WASHINGTON. May 28. , TT . r Truman to-day congratulated the , United States Secretary of State (Mr ■ | Dean Acheson) on “a most successful ■ meeting—the most successful one I . j think, since Potsdam.” The President, ; I who was welcoming Mr Acheson bad; | from the Big Three Foreign Ministers’ ■ ; conference in London, said as he I grasped Mr Acheson’s hand: “You did I a wonderful job.” : Mr Acheson will report fully to Mr Iruman to-morrow on the series of : meetings he held abroad. He will address joint sessions of Con- ' Ma SS 3l° th privately and Publicly on ! , The Washington correspondent of the I ‘New York Times” to-day said that Mr I Acheson was evidently convinced that in his Big Three meetings of the North Atlantic council conferences he had persuaded his colleagues to accept the principle of “total diplomacy” and the notion of “balanced collective forces" for the defence of the Atlantic community. “Now all Mr Acheson has to do is to persuade Mr Truman, the Democratic Party, and the Republicans in Congress and the electorate that they must aaopt and pay for—those same principles. “This will not be easy,” wrote the correspondent. “Mr Acheson will find here a weary Government, overwhelmed with work, preoccupied with politics, and frustrated by the complexity and endlessness of trying to reconcile security and solvency." The correspondent added: “As responsible officials see it the United States can regain the initiative in the cold war only if it succeeds in developing more unity at home and within the Atlantic community. Officials feel that various nations, whose support is vital to our success, particularly in South-east Asia, ire withho'ding then- co-operation because they are not convinced that the Western Allies are going to win the cold war. "Within the Western coalition itself the official theme is that none of the major nations will really throw itself wholeheartedly into the struggle unless confidence in the steadiness and reliability of the United States policy increases. I This is not a popular theme on i Capitol Hill. The legislators do not like I to be told after five years of so-called I peace that they are going to have to take on new commitments.”