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Stettinius had decided to pass up the meeting of the preparatory commission's executive committee in London early next month, let someone else (probably a U.S. official already in London) represent him. The State Department's young Alger Hiss, able Secretary General of the San Francisco Conference, had declined the honor. So had Hiss's colleague, Leo Pasvolsky, who dotes on world affairs but dislikes travel. Stettinius expected to see the Charter through the Senate, stay in the U.S. until the full commission gathers in London in September...
...Secretary. In a class by himself was young, handsome Alger Hiss, a U.S. State Department career man functioning as international secretary general. Relaxed and alert amid innumerable annoyances, Hiss was master of the incredibly complicated conference machinery. The wheels turned. A charter of world organization was taking shape...
Starting with such lofty themes as "American Traits and Attitudes," the professors are quickly reduced to explaining such U.S. oddities as Superman, the technique of dating girls, the mystifying myth of Horatio Alger...
...Alger Hiss was one of the Harvard Law School students whose records earned them the favor of Professor (now Justice) Felix Frankfurter and a year as secretary to the late Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. He was drafted from a New York law firm by the New Deal in 1933, joined the State Department in 1936, accompanied President Roosevelt to Yalta...
...Francisco he and his secretariat of 300 (mostly Americans) will have the drudging, thankless clerk's job of copying, translating and publishing, running the thousands of paper-clip and pencil chores of an international meeting.* But Alger Hiss will be an important figure there. As Secretary-General, managing the agenda, he will have a lot to say behind the scenes about who gets the breaks...