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A woman demonstrator, carrying a sign bidding Secretary of State Dean Acheson to "clear out", pickets before the Savoy Hotel in London, where the Pilgrims Society, for aiding Anglo-American friendship, was giving a dinner in honor of Acheson.

Secretary of State Dean Acheson adjusts his glasses during a press conference, as he tells newsmen that if the "top Russian espionage agent" in the U. S. is connected with the State Department--as charged by Senator Joseph McCarthy--Acheson does not know about it.

Secretary of State Dean Acheson delivers his second foreign policy speech in two days before 8,000 students and faculty members of the University of California at Berkeley. Mr. Acheson asked Russia to help put an end to the current Cold War. From: Dean Acheson Papers.

Secretary of State Dean Acheson hoists his hat and waves goodbye as he leaves the University of California at Berkeley, where he outlined his proposals for peace before a standing-room-only audience of 8,000 persons.

Three studies of Secretary of State Dean Acheson as he addressed the largest gathering of the Commonwealth Club since the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed them in 1932. Speaking on the Far East, he warned the Chinese people that they would bring "grave trouble" on to "aggressive or subversive adventures" beyond China's borders.

Secretary of State Dean Acheson (left), testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said that this country may give new economic aid to Chinese Formosa. Mr. Acheson and ECA Administrator Paul Hoffman (right), urged approval of a request for a $100,000,000 for the American sponsored Republic of South Korea.

Canadian Ambassador Hume Wrong signs the Canadian Water Diversion Treaty at Washington. Looking on are Secretary of State Dean Acheson (left) and Senator Herbert Lehman (D-NY). The Treaty is designed to encourage greater power development from the Niagara River and increase the scenic beauties of Niagara Falls.

Secretary of State Dean Acheson appears before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to answer questions on how far the administration will go to stop Communism in Southeast Asia.

Secretary of State Dean Acheson, left, holds whispered conversation with Chairman Tom Connally of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee as Mr. Acheson and ECA Administrator Paul Hoffman appeared before the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

The U. S. and eight Atlantic Pact allies signed formal mutual aid agreements providing for rush delivery of $1,000,000,000 of American arms to free Western Europe with the next five months. Here, Norwegian Ambassador Wilhelm Munthe De Morgenstierne, Dean of the Diplomatic Corps (left), and Secretary of State Dean Acheson sign the pact.