Dean Acheson Quotes
Britain has lost an empire and not yet found a role in the world.
Dean Acheson, 1893-1971, U.S. Secretary of State (Democrat), Description of post WWII England, Quoted by David Cannadine, In Churchill’s Shadow
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1st Baron & 1st Marquis Curzon of Kedleston
This is one of he earliest uses of the term “policemen of the world.”
This was very much a minority opinion at the time, and has much historical significance as he was the father of the British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, 1869-1940, whose appeasement of Germany led to Word War II. . See {585941}.
The American concepts of democracy and human rights have been resented when U. S. policy advocated other nation’s adhering to them.
She was the first person in this newly created post.
This resolution was bad enough for its overt racism. Ironically, the major victims of Japanese aggression have been Asians—China, Korea, Manchuria, and others. “White” empires had economic interests in throughout Asia and this was what Britten and many others were concerned with protecting. This quotation is important for another reason. At the very moment Britton introduced the resolution, Charles Evans Hughes our Secretary of State was welcoming a new, very high level ambassador to Washington. The administration had decided on a negotiating initiative and Britton and other Congressmen cut the legs out from under the administrations diplomatic efforts. It was particularly bad because one of the Japanese complaints about America and other white nations was their racism and discrimination against Asians. Congress undermining Administration diplomatic efforts has an all too frequent history in America.
De Gaulle tended to see world affairs in terms of extreme, simplistic, and dramatic alternatives when reality is much more complex the truth was turned out to be for England a much more favorable outcome without either of these extremes.
3rd Earl Russell of Kingston. He was right on the 1st, and time will tell about the 2nd. But at the time he made this prediction, America was not a superpower, and was considered behind, England and France and just passing Argentina. At the time, America was reeling from the 1929 stock market crash and the Great Depression. The development of the United State through the FDR era including WWII was amazing. And by 1948 America was not only number 1, but the only Superpower at the time.
He was addressing the Conservatives of Ulster, the Northern Ireland province that was the center of the Orangemen movement of Irish Protestants who were fighting to retain 'Protestant Ascendency' -- which was the social, political and cultural domination of the Protestants (the minority) over the Catholics (the majority). This was best achieved by keeping Ireland a part of Great Britain as opposed to having Ireland as a separate, independent country.
The change in perception came as a result of Admiral Dewey’s May 1898 victory over the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay. The United States had bested a European power.
This was more than a decade after the fal of the Soviet Union.
Dean Gooderham Acheson was an American statesman and lawyer. As United States Secretary of State in the administration of President Harry S. Truman from 1949 to 1953, he played a central role in defining American foreign policy during the Cold War. Acheson helped design the Marshall Plan and was a key player in the development of the Truman Doctrine and creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
