Word: stettinius
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...Connally was not amused when she yelled: "The real war criminals are sitting right in this room. . . . I name Mr. Stettinius, the former international banker." Finally, two guards escorted garrulous Mrs. Waters from the E-shaped hearing table. Cried she : "I'm not afraid of all the devils in hell. What this country needs is a good old-fashioned American revolution...
...time, Molotov's proposal was widely misinterpreted as sheer rudeness. Even Stettinius and Eden opposed it on the wrong grounds: they simply thought that it would snarl up the whole conference procedure. Not until later did Molotov's opponents realize that in forcing him to back down-as he did-they had won the opening round in a long battle for free discussion...
...Russians do not really believe in discussion. The Big Four were the boss, they reasoned, and the way to recognize that fact was by a Big Four presidium which would confine effective discussion to the controlling powers. The Russians never gave up on this issue. But, thanks to Ed Stettinius, Senator Vandenberg and such little-nation spokesmen as Australia's Herbert V. Evatt, they never...
Freedom of discussion was at the heart of the veto issue. The Russians wanted to interpret the veto so that one power could shut off discussion even in the Security Council. At this point Stettinius took his stand and saved the conference. He told Molotov, in a formal note, that the U.S. would sooner have no charter at all than one with this restriction. Meanwhile, Harry Hopkins in Moscow put it up to Stalin. The Russians gave...
...their own interest, the U.S. and Britain were as jealous of Big Power prerogatives as Russia was. But they went about it differently. Not a presidium but a U.S. institution, the smoke-filled room, preserved Big Power unity. San Francisco's smoky room was the parlor of Stettinius' suite atop the Fairmont Hotel, where the Big Power representatives were in almost daily session...