[PEN-L:1616] Re: RE: Dean Acheson

[Brad De Long <delong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>In discussion of African policy particularly, the element of racism cannot
>be discounted. Dean Acheson warned the former Prime Minister of the racist
>government of Rhodesia in 1971 to beware of the "American public," who
>"decide that the only correct decision of any issue must be one which
>favors the colored point of view."

Yep. How the son of an episcopal bishop got to be such a racist pig remains
a mystery to me.

Note, however--as the quotation above shows--that the fact that the U.S. is
a *democracy* placed very substantial limits on the foreign policy elite's
ability to support Ian Smith...

Brad DeLong