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Joseph Marion Jones (October 29, 1908 – August 9, 1990) served in the United States Department of State

United States Department of State

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 in the late 1940s.

As Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs he was responsible for drafting Undersecretary of State Dean Acheson

Dean Acheson

Dean Gooderham Acheson was an American statesman and lawyer. As United States Secretary of State in the administration of President Harry S. Truman from 1949 to 1953, he played a central role in defining American foreign policy during the Cold War...

's speech before the Delta Council on May 8, 1947.

Jones published his memoirs in 1955, entitling them "The Fifteen Weeks: February 21 - June 5 1947". These chronicled his part in the development of the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan

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.

External links

• Jones' personal papers at the Truman library.
• Library of Congress record for "The Fifteen Weeks"
• Google Book Search for O. Westad (ed.), Reviewing the Cold war: Approaches, Interpretations, Theory (Tayor & Francis, 2000)