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Dean G. Acheson—“A Conversation with Dean Acheson,” CBS News Special, September 28, 1969 (excerpt) (Comment on Present at the Creation; interviewed by Eric Sevareid)

One of the things that was so striking to us was the slowness with which we discovered that the 19th century world had disappeared.  All the great empires of the world were gone – British, French, Russian.  They were all gone.  And out of this chaos into which the world had fallen, from that something new had to be created.