OBITUARY:Alice Acheson

The Independent - London | January 25, 1996| | Copyright

Alice Acheson, the widow of Dean Acheson, Secretary of State to President Harry S. Truman from 1949 to 1953, was a handsome, elegant lady of immense charm. She was also a talented painter in oil and water-colour who exhibited in many American galleries and museums. Her subjects included Washington scenes as well as portraits and landscapes of foreign countries which she and her husband had visited over the years.

She was of flinty material, not afraid of telling Winston Churchill that his palette was "too bright" or Henry Kissinger that it was the Achesons' dinner time and that he must finish ...

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