Statement of Secretary of State Dean Acheson to the North Atlantic Council
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OCR Page 1 of 9TEXT OF SECRETARY ACHESON'S STATEMENT
to the North Atlantic Council, Thursday, 18 December, 1952
AND
RECORDS
SERVICE',
MR. ACHESON
Mr. Chairman, fellow members of the Council. I am deeply touched
and very grateful for what the Chairman has said about my service here
with you. This is the last meeting which my colleagues and I will
attend C- for at least four years. (Laughter) It has been a great
experience for all of us to have worked in the creation and the
building of this great institution. It is particularly gratifying to
us that our tenure of office lasted long enough so that we could have
one meeting under the new Organization which was set up in Lisbon,
and which has been so brilliantly managed by Lord Ismay and his
devoted International Staff, and all of us here in our Delegation
would feel very remiss if we left your company without expressing to
Lord Ismay our deep gratitude for what he has done for all of us and
for NATO.
I am told that before the eyes of a drowning man his entire life
passes in review and perhaps an expiring minister may be permitted to
review briefly some of his recent life in this Organization. And I
do this, not to recall or to bore you with events which you know very
well, but to suggest to you that we have all been part of a great
movement here, perhaps the full significance of which we do not yet
fully grasp.
This movement
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