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    "ocrText": "7/16/53 - 16\nBut with the so-called working press I think it was quite different and continued that\nway, and I remomber the end of the Aduinistration, the Jan. 19,20-21, somewhere along\nin there, there was an editorial in the Heräld Tribune which makes a very considerable\npoint of this I had very good relations with them. Now I think all of that\ncame about by the fact that what we tried to do was at each one of these press conferences\nyou couldn't do it always--to take some matter and talk about it at considerable length\nfor the purpose of developing the subject, so that the newspaper men in the room got a\nrounded idea of what the particular subject was all about--thether it was Point 4, or\nthe Atlantic Treaty, or whatever it was. The Kingsbuzy-Smith (?) questions and answers\nyou discussed not merely the little impact? of spot news with which they were\nconeerned, but the whole background of it--how it came about, what the policy of the\ngovernment was, why it had that policy, what we were trying to do and what would happen\nif we were able to do it. Without taking too much time on it, there is...I noticed that\nRoscoe Drummond, Christion Science Monitor, on 11 FEb. 19, has an article on these press\nconferences, devoted to it. Without reading a whole long thing, he says \"now I've had\nthree, three successive weeks, and each one of them has taken up a subject and thrown a\nrly\ngreat deal of light on it. Mr. Acheson is accomplishing three purposes: he is regulation\nexplaining and expounding the day-to-day developments in American foreign policy to the\nAmerican public. He is taling the Nation's foreign policy to the people who must under-\nstand it if they are going to support it. Secondly, he is seizing the diplomatic initia-\ntive and is not allowing attacks on the West to have the advantage of long delays before\nany effective replj.\" He talks about that. \"Finally Mr. Acheson does not deal merely\nin negatives. He doesn't meroly answez Soviet propaganda; he is showing that he can\nstate democracy's case constructively and immginativoly.\" Then he goes on and talks\nabout the exposition of the North Atlantic Pact; the exposition of the whole idea of\nPoint 4, and the Kingsbury-Smith matter. Then he has 2 more that he mentions, and he\nends up \"No Secretary af State since Chorles Evans Hughes has used his press conferences\nso\ninformatively,\nfrankly\nand\nalertly\nas\nMr.\nAcheson\nis\nnow\ndoing.\"\nThis\nis\nquite\napart"
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