To Better Order the Universe: Recalling Dean Acheson

✍ Scribed by Review by: Roy Jenkins

• Book ID: 125222009
• Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 1003 KB
• Volume: 77
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0015-7120
• DOI: 10.2307/20049057

✦ Synopsis

I first met Dean Acheson in the week of the Bay of Pigs at what he rather charitably

described as "a meeting of intellectuals" in Bologna, Italy. The occasion, rather than the attendance, is described on page 389 of Chaces authoritative and reasonably succinct biography of the 51st secretary of state. For me, then a relatively young backbench Labour member of the British Parliament, Acheson trailed clouds of glory, not only for the assured authority of his personality, but for his record as perhaps the key member of a team of architects?the others were Harry Truman,