What Was So Ironic About Dean Acheson's Speech to the Delta

question 27

Multiple Choice

What was so ironic about Dean Acheson's speech to the Delta Council in 1947?

• A) Acheson praised the president's defense of democratic institutions in the place that did not know democracy.
• B) Acheson was urging the gathering of cotton planters to automate production, while the Democrats were pushing for fair wages for black farmworkers.
• C) Acheson was delivering a speech meant for new African-American Democrats in Mississippi to a gathering of white supremacists.
• D) The Under Secretary of State was warning the same audience against the Cold War that had already heard Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech a month prior.
• E) Acheson had delivered the same speech to the council the year before.

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