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...Some of the officials had been in office too long," Macridis declared, "and had gotten too tired to do an efficient job." In the shakeup, one-third of the high Cabinet officials and many junior secretaries were replaced...
...changes in the Cabinet have no relation to the problem of Britain's entry into the Common Market," Macridis asserted, since the shakeup resulted from the Fovernment's "internal" problems...
After the Bowles shakeup, the Latin American section of the State Department emerged no happier than before; some seven men who cannot be counted on to listen to each other now control hemispheric economic policy. The result is that Dean Rusk travels to Punta del Este to damage the Alliance by splitting Right and Left further apart in Argentina; the President himself has to defend aid to Brazil for lack of other support; and the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Inter-American affairs, as a former member of the White House staff, is apparently not responsible to his chief...
...ranks at the top of the middle group; although he retains the confidence of the President as his chief adviser on foreign policy, Rusk has struck few sparks as an Administration spokesman, has not yet solved the problems of internal administration at State, which is due for another major shakeup...
Memos & Mice. As might be expected, hardly anyone agreed with anyone else. Columnist Walter Lippmann found the 'shakeup "heartening evidence of the President's uncommon ability to learn from experience." But to David Lawrence it was "a tragic example of experimentation, lack of system, and the evil effect of partisan politics on the efficient conduct of government." Positioning himself in the cautious middle, Columnist Marquis Childs wrote that the State Department is "an overblown machine that carries into the jet age much of the apparatus of the horse-and-buggy era ... Whether it is resolved by the changes...