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...surprised that you do not know what our position on it is," replied Acheson. The policy, he said, was stated in a letter written seven months ago by Franklin Roosevelt to Norman Armour upon his departure for Madrid as Ambassador to Spain. The letter, in fact, could now be released for publication. In no more than 15 minutes, mimeographed copies of the letter were ready for reporters...
Third of the top triumvirate is Assistant Secretary Dunn, a man of two reputations. Inside the Department he is known and admired for his thorough knowledge of Department procedure. Many on the outside consider him a man who married wealth (Armour) and adopted arch-conservative views. Jimmy Byrnes has found his departmental knowledge invaluable. (At a Potsdam session one day, Molotov and Eden suddenly began talking about Varkiza, the Greek village where the armistice in the civil war was signed. Lost in a fog, Jimmy Byrnes turned to Jimmy Dunn and blurted: "What the hell is Varkiza?" Jimmy Dunn...
...Jimmy Dunn. (Reputedly, he had a big hand in the pro-Franco and pro-Vichy appeasement policies of the early war years.) But Jimmy Dunn is also a shy, aloof, painstaking worker who knows State Department doings inside out. He started as a clerk 26 years ago, married an Armour, lives fashionably on Massachusetts Avenue...
...Ambassador Norman Armour at once demanded that Laval be turned out of Spain or interned. Laval chose internment. From Paris came word that the French Government had already begun extradition proceedings...
...packers, the court held that packers who handle only fresh beef (about 15% of the industry) are losing money in the price squeeze, losses which are not made up by the Government's subsidy. Something should be done for them.* But the others, notably the Big Four (Swift, Armour, Wilson and Cudahy) are making up losses on meat through the sale of byproducts, tallow, glue...