Dean Acheson - Country Quotes

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I did not share President's view on the Palestine solution... The number that could be absorbed by Arab Palestine without creating a grave political problem would be inadequate, and to transform the country into a Jewish state capable of receiving a million or more immigrants would vastly exacerbate the political problem and imperil not only American but all Western influence in the Near East.

Dean Acheson

The experiences of the years... have brought the country, particularly its young people, to a mood of depression, disillusion, and withdrawal from the effort to affect the world.

Dean Acheson

Only immediate assertion of leadership by the United States could prevent war in the next decade... The President and the Secretary of State must shock the country into a realization of its peril...

Dean Acheson

How could the USA champion individual freedom in the world generally while denying it to an important minority in its own country.

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