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...success" of the foreign-aid program, wrote Dwight Eisenhower to his Secretary of State last month, would be the man picked to head the State Department's new International Cooperation Administration, which would take over most of the work of Harold Stassen's Foreign Operations Administration. Having no man in mind, John Foster Dulles turned over the search for the policy-making executive to his Under Secretary, Herbert Hoover Jr., and five days later headed north for a Duck Island vacation...
...Raged, in the Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee, after Foreign Operations Administrator Harold Stassen sent word that his aides could be interviewed by subcommittee staff members only in the presence of either Stassen or his lawyers. Cried North Carolina's Democratic Senator Sam Ervin-of Stassen: "What meat doth this Caesar eat, that he hath grown so great?'' Growled Joe McCarthy: Stassen's stand was "the most unheard of thing I have seen...
...between U.S. companies and the Japanese government. Though U.S. industry has poured more than $229 million into Japan since the war, some 70 applications for $34 million in new investments are gathering dust in the files of Japan's powerful Foreign In vestment Council. Fortnight ago, FOAdministrator Harold Stassen announced a plan to guarantee future U.S. investments in Japan. Four companies applied for such guarantee, but none was approved by Japan, and none is likely to be. Reason: the government regards FOA's plan as a reflection upon Japan's "stability," has already given hints that investment...
...Washington observers doubted the President's sincere hope that somehow an enforceable plan for world disarmament might be found. But there is no evidence that Russia is likely to become more tractable on disarmament proposals than it has been in the past. Therefore, the practicality of Stassen's new assignment is in doubt, giving rise to Washington guessing that it is a make-work slot to keep Harold busy pending a vacancy in a top operating post...
...With Stassen's personal future temporarily tended to, the Administration is expected to parcel out FOA's economic functions to the State Department, its military functions to the Pentagon...