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The task of a public officer seeking to explain and gain support for a major policy is not that of the writer of a doctoral thesis, qualification must give way to simplicity of statement, nicety and nuance to bluntness, almost brutality, in carrying home a point.

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Dean Acheson

Dean Acheson

Dean Gooderham Acheson (pronounced /?æt??s?n/; April 11, 1893 – October 12, 1971) was an American statesman and lawyer.

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