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...Harold Stassen was the most effective public figure, the most "world-minded" of the U.S. delegates. He received the most mail (about 1,500 letters a day). Mindful of his Presidential chances, the Republican Party helped him answer it. Ailing Representative Charles Aubrey Eaton contributed the strongest anti-Russian feeling, and Dean Virginia Gildersleeve brought the best of intentions. Neither of these commodities was scarce at San Francisco. Representative Sol Bloom was also present...
...somebodies. A remarkably small crowd, no more than 600 in all, stood placidly behind the police ropes. Shipbuilder Henry J. Kaiser, mildly astonishing in a new, statesmanlike Homburg, and Mrs. Kaiser stomped up the narrow isle of faces, and into the Opera House. Then came Commander and Mrs. Harold Stassen (with a pink rose corsage) ; Senator Vandenberg, smiling largely at the populace; Canada's Mackenzie King, prudently armed with an umbrella; Bidault of France, bareheaded as always and skipping smartly from car to door way; Lord Halifax, almost unnoticed in the flashy Arabians' wake; Anthony Eden, acknowledging handclaps...
...Francisco agenda. Would the conference merely be asked to swallow Dumbarton Oaks whole, without any change? Moscow's War and the Working Class, which often reflects official opinion, thought so. Yet among the U.S. delegation were at least two-Senator Arthur Vandenberg and Commander Harold Stassen-determined to amend Dumbarton Oaks. Ed Stettinius finally made the Administration line clear: to defend and preserve the basic character of Dumbarton Oaks, but to put proffered amendments before the entire conference...
Then seven of the U.S. conference delegates,† after a briefing by Secretary of State Stettinius, trooped into the White House for a chat. Three days later, Commander Harold Stassen, off for a month in the Pacific before going to San Francisco, came in to make a private call...
...Poland, Greece, Rumania, Yugoslavia, etc.) be re-viewed at the final peace conference. This proposal may have provoked W.W.C.'s outcry about imperialism. Pundit Walter Lippmann, frankly in favor of spheres of influence, cried that Senator Vandenberg's suggestion would cause "endless confusion." But Harold Stassen, internationalist, has also insisted that any world organization should include provision for peaceful change as it is needed...