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Also in London, Edward R. Stettinius chirped that subcommittees of the United Nations Organization Preparatory Commission were "making good progress" in discussions of atomic-bomb control. At best, these discussions were necessarily academic...
...Under Ed Stettinius and his Latin American deputy, Nelson Rockefeller, the State Department seesawed back to Welles's way of doing things. At the Mexico City Conference last winter, such anti-totalitarians as Mexico's Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla led the Latin demand that Argentina's totalitarians be restored to hemispheric fellowship. At San Francisco, this process was completed by Argentina's admission to the world family...
...week's simultaneous blow at Latin pride and Latin dictatorship was paunchy, punchy Spruille Braden, lately U.S. Ambassador to Argentina and now Jimmy Byrnes's new Assistant Secretary in charge of Latin American affairs. Last May, just after he arrived in Argentina, Braden kicked the old Welles-Stettinius-Rockefeller tradition aside and announced his own policy: "We would like to see democratic governments in all parts of the world." Times had changed in Buenos Aires...
...Stettinius, chief U.S. delegate to the Preparatory Commission of the United Nations Organization, was only half successful in his efforts to speed up U.N.O.'s timetable in London. At the rate the Council of Foreign Ministers was drafting treaties, U.N.O. would be organized in time to enforce them. The question was whether, when that time came, the nations would really trust U.N.O...
...Russians promptly claimed a foul. At San Francisco, they said, former U.S. Secretary of State Stettinius had promised in a letter that the U.S. would not object to Russian participation in "administration and trusteeship." Molotov at London interpreted this phrase to mean a one-power mandate for an Italian colony, not merely a share in multipower supervision. In the Russian view, the "and" was all-important...