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===Korean war===
===Korean war===
On January 12, 1950, Secretary of State Dean Acheson gave a speech to the National Press Club excluding South Korea from the defense perimeter.<ref>https://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/korea/large/documents/pdfs/kr-3-13.pdf</ref> Omar Bradley blamed Truman and Acheson in his memoir ''A General's Life'', and historian Bill Shinn concurs.<ref>A General's Life by Omar N. Bradley, pg. 528</ref><ref>The Forgotten War Remembered, Korea: 1950-1953: A War Correspondent's Notebook & Today's Danger in Korea by Bill Shinn, pg. 52</ref> At the same time, evidence from Korean and Soviet archives demonstrates that [[Stalin]] and [[Kim il-Sung]] were planning were already in the works and Acheson's remarks only had "a certain influence on Kim Il-sung".<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=GiWPAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA42&lpg=PA42&dq=Acheson%2BKim+Il-sung&source=bl&ots=jjy7X0Km4v&sig=YEEHPnQVPiHV8dzEkc56Gn4-BXk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjP-N-Az_jMAhVK2WMKHYGfCC4Q6AEIgQEwEw#v=onepage&q=Acheson%2BKim%20Il-sung&f=false The Korean War: An Interpretative History], By Stanley Sandler, 2002.</ref>
On January 12, 1950, Secretary of State Dean Acheson gave a speech to the National Press Club excluding South Korea from the defense perimeter.<ref>https://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/korea/large/documents/pdfs/kr-3-13.pdf</ref> Omar Bradley blamed Truman and Acheson in his memoir ''A General's Life'', and historian Bill Shinn concurs.<ref>A General's Life by Omar N. Bradley, pg. 528</ref><ref>The Forgotten War Remembered, Korea: 1950-1953: A War Correspondent's Notebook & Today's Danger in Korea by Bill Shinn, pg. 52</ref> At the same time, evidence from Korean and Soviet archives demonstrates that [[Stalin]] and [[Kim Il-sung]] were planning were already in the works and Acheson's remarks only had "a certain influence on Kim Il-sung".<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=GiWPAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA42&lpg=PA42&dq=Acheson%2BKim+Il-sung&source=bl&ots=jjy7X0Km4v&sig=YEEHPnQVPiHV8dzEkc56Gn4-BXk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjP-N-Az_jMAhVK2WMKHYGfCC4Q6AEIgQEwEw#v=onepage&q=Acheson%2BKim%20Il-sung&f=false The Korean War: An Interpretative History], By Stanley Sandler, 2002.</ref>
With the Communist takeover of mainland [[China]] in 1949, that country switched from a close friend of the U.S. to a bitter enemy—the two powers were at war in Korea by 1950. Critics blamed Acheson for what they called the "loss of China" and launched several years of organized opposition to Acheson's tenure; Acheson ridiculed his opponents and called this period in his outspoken memoirs "The Attack of the Primitives." Although he maintained his role as a firm anti-communist, he was attacked by various anti-communists for not taking a more active role in attacking communism in Asia. During the Korean War both he and Marshall, now serving as Secretary of Defense came under attack from [[Joseph McCarthy]]. Congressman [[Richard Nixon]] ridiculed "Acheson's College of Cowardly Communist Containment." This criticism grew very loud after Acheson refused to 'turn his back on [[Alger Hiss]]' when the latter was accused of being a Communist spy, and convicted (of perjury for denying he was a spy).
With the Communist takeover of mainland [[China]] in 1949, that country switched from a close friend of the U.S. to a bitter enemy—the two powers were at war in Korea by 1950. Critics blamed Acheson for what they called the "loss of China" and launched several years of organized opposition to Acheson's tenure; Acheson ridiculed his opponents and called this period in his outspoken memoirs "The Attack of the Primitives." Although he maintained his role as a firm anti-communist, he was attacked by various anti-communists for not taking a more active role in attacking communism in Asia. During the Korean War both he and Marshall, now serving as Secretary of Defense came under attack from [[Joseph McCarthy]]. Congressman [[Richard Nixon]] ridiculed "Acheson's College of Cowardly Communist Containment." This criticism grew very loud after Acheson refused to 'turn his back on [[Alger Hiss]]' when the latter was accused of being a Communist spy, and convicted (of perjury for denying he was a spy).