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When these assorted bits were assembled with the Smuts version, the total made no sense. At that point Poet Archibald MacLeish, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State, returned to San Francisco and was assigned the redrafting job. He tried to boil the whole thing down to 100 words, but the coordinating committee threw his version out. It was too literary...
Archibald MacLeish, now an Assistant Secretary of State, was succeeded as Librarian of Congress by a professor-librarian with whom the poet had sometimes clashed: Acting Librarian Dr. Luther Harris Evans, a 42-year-old Texan...
...showed the effect of this sort of talk. Dean Virginia Gildersleeve thought it a shame that the Pre amble, at least, was not rid of legal writing so that it would be an inspiration to the world. Fraser agreed. He suggested that the Preamble be given to Poet Archibald MacLeish, Assistant Secretary of State, so that he could imbue it with "life and soul and spirit...
...Suspicion? A Guess? Henry Wallace, of course, found nothing "irreconcilable in our aims and purposes. Those who so proclaim are wittingly or unwittingly looking for war, and that, in my opinion, is criminal." Assistant Secretary of State Archibald MacLeish told a radio audience: "The basis for the suspicion [toward Russia] is nothing more substantial than suspicion...
...worked well and loyally for Stettinius. Armstrong's vast knowledge of foreign affairs was immensely useful to the delegation's amateurs. The State Department's Leo Pasvolsky, with the eyes of a tired owl, knew more about the Dumbarton Oaks plan than any one else. Archibald MacLeish shepherded a restless horde of consultants, and Nelson Rockefeller Avas able scoutmaster for the Latin Americans. Rockefeller gave the Europeans an unpleasant impression of a party whip swinging his votes...