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...President Roosevelt's actions in two of his recent appointments clearly point to selfish political debt-paying. Edward J. Flynn, nominated to one of the nation's most responsible positions as ambassador and envoy to Australia and the Far East, was morally questionable, disregarding his capacity for such a post. Had his nomination been confirmed, the Australian government would have found itself in the humiliating position of having to tolerate a man it never could respect. Second, ex-Senator Josh Lee, wholly unqualified for the job, was confirmed through "senatorial courtesy" to a position on the Civil Aeronautics Board...
Thus New Hampshire's smooth, sarcastic Republican Senator Styles Bridges resumed his attack one day last week on Franklin Roosevelt's appointment of Democratic National Chairman Edward J. Flynn as Minister to Australia and special envoy in the South Pacific (TIME, Jan. 18). Styles Bridges had sighted political pay dirt; he had a little score to settle with the Administration for digging up potent, ex-Republican Governor Francis P. Murphy to run against him in last November's election...
...national uprising. Barring any new, sensational proof of Senator Bridges' charges, his record is remarkably clean for one who has been a political boss-local (The Bronx) and national-for 22 years. Ed Flynn's unswerving loyalty to Franklin Roosevelt might recommend him as a personal envoy. But of the talents necessary for a representative of the U.S. people, Frank Knox's Chicago Daily News said: "He is not a diplomat. He has had no foreign experience. He has had no military experience. He has no particular familiarity with Australia or with Pacific problems...
...Washington, blue-eyed, balding little Gaston Henry-Haye. The State Department waited for M. Henry-Haye to come after his passport, finally dispatched George T. Summerlin, Chief of the Division of Protocol, to the handsome, police-guarded French Embassy. For him to give the documents to the anxious, worried envoy took only a moment...
...Middle East last week seemed just as eager to sell itself to Wendell Willkie as he was to promote the United Nations' cause. As an unimperial envoy, he was received with great enthusiasm everywhere, and he incidentally brought into view many Middle Eastern figures who are now important...