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...Bunche is at present the top-ranking director of the Department of Trusteeship, a post which he has held since 1948. He has been associated with the U.N. since the Dumbarton Oaks Conference in 1945, which he attended as a member of the United States delegation...
Alger Hiss, 49, went to Washington as secretary to Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, was an adviser to Franklin Roosevelt at Yalta, and was secretary of the Dumbarton Oaks and San Francisco Conferences which gave birth to the United Nations. Against this bright star of the New Deal, Whittaker Chambers made a shocking accusation: Hiss was a Communist. Hiss challenged Chambers to make his charges without immunity. Chambers did, and they were tested in court. Hiss is now in the federal penitentiary at Lewisburg...
Others quitting their College positions include Clarence H. Haring '07, Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin-American History and Economics and former Rhodes Scholar: Wilhelm R. Koehler, William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts, who served as a Senior Fellow in charge of Research at Dumbarton Oaks from 1941-44; Clarence I. Lewis '06, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, former president of the American Philosophical Association and author of "Mind and World Order"; Richard von Mises, Gordon McKay Professor of Aerodynamics and Applied Mathematics and internationally known for his work in fluid mechanics, elasticity, and statistical probability; and Chester...
...Pasvolsky, 59, Russian-born architect of the United Nations charter and economics expert at Brookings Institution; after a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. A late '30s protege of Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Economist Pasvolsky served as Hull's principal behind-the-scenes strategist at the Dumbarton Oaks and San Francisco conferences, broke a Big Five deadlock at San Francisco by "reinterpreting" the veto question and rewriting the U.N. charter...
Washington newsmen were surprised by nothing but the frankness and timing of Krock's announcement, since Diplomatic Correspondent Reston, 43, has long been the star of the Times bureau and heir apparent to the throne. A Pulitzer Prizewinner (for his reporting of the Dumbarton Oaks conference), Reston has worked top sources and a sharp, journalistic mind to give him a long series of exclusive stories. His basic formula for covering Washington: "Read the newspapers and then raise in your own mind the unanswered questions. You can anticipate what a government will do, and, on the basis of that...