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...Virginia farmer, Mr. Will attended normal school. He came to Washington in 1910 and got a job in the Census Bureau, but soon switched to State. In his 37 years of service, he has served under twelve Secretaries. Of them all, he considers Charles Evans Hughes (1921-25) the ablest. "A dignified man who looked the part-the outstanding Secretary of his time," says Mr. Will...
WILLY HERMANN SCHLIEKER is the outstanding example of this type. Only 37, Schlieker is one of the Ruhr's ablest, richest (total 1950 business: $24 million) operators in the steel business. Son of a poor Hamburg ship fitter, he started work at 16 as an SS typist, joined the Nazi Party in 1941. He has twice reorganized the German steel industry: once for Hitler's war production boss, Albert Speer, later for the Allies. With similar impartiality, he shipped $12 million worth of goods to the Soviets in 1949-50. Then, when Bonn clamped down on this trade...
Having got this valedictory off his chest, Dr. Condon was through with Washington, where he was rated as one of the ablest scientists ever to serve the Government. He will return to private life as research chief of the Corning Glass Co., which has never been accused of subversive activity...
...down. The Harriman mission was the final affront which Harriman compounded by refusing to let him see cables from Washington on the ground that they were "too secret." ¶ Loy Henderson, 59, Ambassador to India since 1948, to replace Grady in Iran. One of State's ablest career diplomats, Henderson was the best the U.S. could find for the all-but-impossible job in Iran, where the Communists are reaching for the spoils of disaster. As director of the Office of Near Eastern and African Affairs, Henderson watched Iran, with U.N. and U.S. help, weather the crisis...
...Indian delegation infuriated Dulles (he once got up in the middle of the night to draft a reply to the Premier). But one by one, the Asians sided with the U.S. Said Crown Prince Savang of Laos (IndoChina) : "This document can bring friendship back to the heart of peoples." Ablest Asian spokesman at the conference was Ceylon's delegate, Finance Minister J. R. Jayewardene, a slim, soft-spoken man with a razor-like tongue. It was interesting, said Jayewardene, that Russia wanted to "insure the people of Japan the fundamental freedoms of expression, of press, religious worship-freedoms...