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...Dulles' illness leaves open the possibility that the man holding the job of Undersecretary will succeed him. It was hardly comforting to think of Herbert Hoover, Jr., the man Herter will replace next month, as Secretary of State. Hoover's blunders on several important occasions have obscured the achievement which won him his job: successfully ending the Iranian oil dispute...
Governor Herter will undoubtedly make a serious effort to fill the void left by Hoover's inadequacy, bringing to the position knowledge and a liberal reputation which has grown since he was appointed an attache at the Embassy in Berlin in 1916. As a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Governor Herter was instrumental in winning support in Congress for the Marshall Plan, and he has served with some distinction as a legislator and governor in Massachusetts...
...Eisenhower team will probably find Governor Herter much more attuned to its policies than was Mr. Hoover, and one suspects, on the basis of his record, that he will express a more internationally oriented attitude in the inner councils of the Administration than did his predecessor. While Herter does not possess the experience nor outlook designed to make him another Chester Bowles, he is at least free of the burden which former President Hoover must have been...
Herter is at least as capable an administrator as Hoover, Jr., and is far more competent to shoulder the responsibilities of Secretary of State. In the not unlikely event that Secretary Dulles will retire soon, it is reassuring to see a truly responsible leader being groomed to take his place...
...staff. For almost four years Secretary of State Dulles has carried much of U.S. foreign policy around the world in his hat; when Dulles was stricken with cancer at the height of the crisis, the U.S. was also sorely stricken. And although Ike respects Under Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr., he respects him primarily as an administrator. At one point in the crisis the President wanted to bring in his old wartime chief of staff Walter Bedell Smith as a temporary foreign-policy adviser, but Hoover earnestly objected. The President, aware of the Cabinet officer's traditional fear...