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From the beginning of American history to 1945, United States foreign policy had looked steadfastly eastward, across the North Atlantic to Europe. Secretary of State Dean Acheson, when criticized for this seeming preoccupation with the Old World, replied, "With Europe everything was possible; without Europe, nothing was possible." Yet after World War II, the reach of U.S. foreign policy widened vastly. In late 1945, Asia's traditionally controlling Japanese empire, the political and economic giant of the Far East, lay in ruins, pulled apart. Acheson had always known Japan must continue to be the key to stabilizing Asia; its reconstruction - along the lines determined by the United States - would finally allow us to "control every wave in the Pacific Ocean." This is the story of how, for a time, such U.S. control was achieved. Dean Acheson served as Undersecretary of the State Department from 1945 to 1947 and as Secretary from 1949 to 1953. During this period, Acheson and his talented entourage - George Kennan, Dean Rusk, Paul H. Nitze, Max Bishop, and W. Walton Butterworth - were architects working not only to restore Japan as the "workshop of Asia" but also to set in place the rol

Author

McGlothlen, Ronald L.

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9780393035209

Subjects

Political Science, History, Language Learning