Editing Dean Acheson (section)

=== Menon Cabal and the 'end of easy and automatic relations' ===
Acheson's advocacy of foreign policy discomfited many traditional American allies, who banded together with India's de facto foreign minister [[V. K. Krishna Menon|Krishna Menon]], in what Acheson named at the time and again in his memoirs as the '[[Menon cabal]]'.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Beisner |first=Robert L. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D9Zb_feBUdkC |title=Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold War |date=2009-03-06 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-975489-2 |language=en}}</ref> Members of the cabal included [[Anthony Eden]] and [[Selwyn Lloyd]] from Britain; [[Richard Casey, Baron Casey|R.G. Casey]] of Australia; and [[Lester B. Pearson]] of Canada, who famously observed in 1951 that "the days of easy and automatic relations with the United States are over'.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Blanchette |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0AyvAwAAQBAJ&dq=%22easy+and+automatic+relations+with+the+United+States+were+over%22+.&pg=PA218 |title=Canadian Foreign Policy, 1955-1965: Selected Speeches and Documents |date=1977-01-15 |publisher=McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |isbn=978-0-7735-9120-2 |language=en}}</ref> The Menon cabal would frustrate Acheson's [[Korean War]] diplomatic policy, and remained a force beyond Acheson's tenure as Secretary of State,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Touhey |first=Ryan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XZ30BwAAQBAJ |title=Conflicting Visions: Canada and India in the Cold War World, 1946-76 |date=2015-05-15 |publisher=UBC Press |isbn=978-0-7748-2903-8 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Hopkins |first=Michael F. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rOMlDgAAQBAJ |title=Dean Acheson and the Obligations of Power |date=2017-03-17 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1-5381-0002-8 |language=en}}</ref> while Acheson's vituperative description of the cabal's diplomatic efforts as 'sophistries' by Menon and Pearson personally wounded Pearson, who would go on to become Prime Minister of Canada.<ref>{{Cite book |last=English |first=John |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zN79XJJaIhUC |title=The Worldly Years: The Life of Lester B. Pearson, 1949-1972 |date=2011-09-14 |publisher=Knopf Canada |isbn=978-0-307-37539-1 |language=en}}</ref>