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...Stettinius: "Well, Andrei, you and I have been in this thing a long way together-Dumbarton Oaks, Yalta, San Francisco and now London. Our child is almost ready to walk...
...have a short way with sentimentality. Last week the first issue of the United Nations News, an eight-page, letter-size monthly established by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, reported this conversation in London between UNO's chief Russian Delegate Andrei A. Gromyko and chief U.S. Delegate Edward R. Stettinius...
...Senate, which had heard all this before, calmly went about confirming Mrs. Roosevelt's appointment. Quickly they approved the rest of the first-string team the President wanted to send to London-former Secretary of State Ed Stettinius, Democratic Senator Tom Connally, Republican Senator Arthur Vandenberg, Secretary of State Jimmy Byrnes. But the debate had only begun. As the names of Harry Truman's five alternate delegates were read, Arkansas' liberal Democrat J. William Fulbright got up with a glitter...
...bill made its points firmly: 1) the President would appoint and Congress would confirm the UNO delegate (probably earnest, white-topped Edward R. Stettinius Jr., to whom the job has long been promised); 2) the delegate, with ambassadorial rank, would act only on presidential order, never on his own initiative; 3) the President would be empowered, through his delegate and without asking Congress, to send a limited number of U.S. troops anywhere...
Edward R. Stettinius Jr. took time out from trying to unite nations, and returned from London to let Manhattan surgeons worry about his gallstones...