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CONFIDENTIA L
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Cabinet. He was "a Jacobin"; he "gloried in the crimes of the Terror in
France", he was "an American Robespierre", and worse still, an "American
Marat"; he was "an atheist" and "hated Christianity"; he had "seduced a
neighbor's wife"; and he had "a negro mistress".
When home I had an hour in the apartment of Hull and later in that
of Baruch, and in discussing the villianous campaign against Acheson both
used precisely the same words:--
"We have reached a new low in American politics". It was not quite
"new" since the campaign against Jefferson was quite as low, but we have
had to wait 159 years to find anything as low.
These attacks on Acheson have made no impression, even on the man in
the streets, and in governmental and political circles Acheson is greatly
admired. Horacio Walker then Foreign Minister, has spoken to me in terms
of admiration of the perfect way he reconciled little differences in the
conference of the Foreign Ministers of the American Republics.
Your own status as the leader of the democratic world has never been
so great as it is today, and it is generally assumed here that you will be
renominated and reelected. You have made the fight and the issue on which
we can win. I know of no other possible Democrat who makes such an appeal
to the "common man" who is not only backbone of the Party but of the count ry.
I hope that at the proper time you respond to the general d emand of the
Party. It is crystal clear that the Republicans fear you as they fear no
other possible candidate.
Warmest regards,
Sincerely,
elaude GROWED
Claude G. Bowers
American Ambassador
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