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...first and most significant crisis of the San Francisco conference appeared the second day. It arose in the steering committee, when Anthony Eden moved that Ed Stettinius be made permanent chairman of the conference. Molotov objected: he said that a presidium of the four sponsoring powers should rotate among themselves the chairmanships of the plenary sessions and of the most important committees...
Though they produce able disputants, the Russians do not really believe in discussion. The Big Four were the boss, they reasoned, and the way to recognize that fact was by a Big Four presidium which would confine effective discussion to the controlling powers. The Russians never gave up on this issue. But, thanks to Ed Stettinius, Senator Vandenberg and such little-nation spokesmen as Australia's Herbert V. Evatt, they never...
...Russian Constitution requires that treaties be ratified by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R., which is always in session. The Presidium has never yet turned down a treaty...
...political structure of the Soviet Constitution of 1936 either published or dis cussed at length in any American paper (and I'm sure I never will); nor have I seen general or detailed analyses of any kind of Soviet techniques of free suffrage, the make up of the Presidium, or of the manner in which executive branches of the Soviet state actually function...
...presiding, kept his head, kept out of the quarrel, and did his failing best to keep order. Molotov had forewarned both Stettinius and Anthony Eden that he would propose to rotate the presidency, but not that he wanted to tie up all conference procedure in a four-man presidium. Eden finally suggested a way out: rotate the conference presidency, make Stettinius permanent chairman of the potent steering and executive committees. Molotov seemed to agree, then insisted that only the four-way split of the conference presidency be announced that day. Everything was put over until the next day. Thoroughly incensed...