Acheson, Dean, 1893-1971

President Harry S. Truman is shown signing the Mutual Security Act, a bill authorizing $7,483,000,000 in Arms and Economic Aid to Anti-Communist Nations in nearly all parts of the world. Around the President, Left to Right: Secretary of State Dean Acheson; William C. Foster, Deputy Secretary of Defense; Rep. James P. Richards (D.S.C.); Sen. Theodore Green (R.R.I.); and Sen. Alexander Wiley (R. Wisc.)

In a re-enacted close-up for photographers, Secretary of State Dean Acheson signs for his country a Tri-Partite Security Pact with Australia and New Zealand. This was a prelude to the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference to be held the next week.

Secretary of State Dean Acheson walks down the steps of the Senate Office Building after the joint Senate Armed Services Foreign Relations Committee investigating the MacArthur dismissal recessed for lunch.

Secretary of State Dean Acheson returned to the stand for the fourth day before the Senate Committee investigating the MacArthur dismissal. See also 96-1120.

Secretary of State Dean Acheson makes his long-awaited appearance before the Senate MacArthur investigation to face the challenge of hostile Republicans to disclose a "hotter than a firecracker" State Department on Formosa.

President Harry S. Truman urges the American Republics to embark on a broad program of defense against a "strike" by Soviet Russia in his address at the opening session of the American Foreign Ministers Emergency Conference in Washington. At the President's right is Secretary of State Dean Acheson, while seated on the stage are the various Ministers and Ambassadors.

Shown leaving the White House after conferring with President Truman are Secretary of State Dean Acheson (left) and John Foster Dulles, GOP consultant on foreign policy.

Secretary of State Dean Acheson confers with U. S. Army Secretary Frank C. Pace, Jr. (left), during the 12 nation Atlantic Pact Conference held in Brussels.

Secretary of State Dean Acheson (right) went before a joint meeting of the Senate-House Foreign Relations Committees to report on the crisis talks of President Harry S. Truman and Prime Minister Clement Attlee (of Great Britain). Their talks deal with the Korean War. He is shown here with committee member Senator Brien McMahon (D. Conn.).

Secretary of State Dean Acheson leaves the White House today after attending a conference between President Truman and Congressional leaders at which the President asked for a $18,200,000,000 program to expand the armed services and boost atomic weapons productions.