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Into the White House one day last week, past the iron gates, buzzed busy Ed Stettinius, just off the plane from San Francisco. His grey homburg was at a jaunty angle, his humor good. Twenty minutes later he emerged with happy tidings. President Truman, he announced, would visit the San Francisco conference...
...Americans. Secretary of State Stettinius was the conference's energetic general manager. His delegation was surprisingly harmonious, although Senators Vandenberg and Connolly never let anyone forget that the U.S. Senate would have the last word. Tom Connally took a back seat. Arthur Vandenberg worked hard and influentially ; even State Department career men who do not like him admitted that he was "ceasing to be unhelpful...
...delegation's principal advisers were John Foster Dulles and Hamilton Fish Armstrong. Dulles, who would have been Secretary of State if Tom Dewey had been elected President, worked well and loyally for Stettinius. Armstrong's vast knowledge of foreign affairs was immensely useful to the delegation's amateurs. The State Department's Leo Pasvolsky, with the eyes of a tired owl, knew more about the Dumbarton Oaks plan than any one else. Archibald MacLeish shepherded a restless horde of consultants, and Nelson Rockefeller Avas able scoutmaster for the Latin Americans. Rockefeller gave the Europeans an unpleasant...
Viacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, Russia's sharp-eyed, correct Commissar for Foreign Affairs, was rated the top "glamor boy" of the San Francisco conference by Britain's pert Delegate Ellen Wilkinson, Labor M.P. Her one qualification: Molotov (unlike Britain's Eden and America's Stettinius) was not really very glamorous "to look...
Equitable sold policies to employes of some 40 U.S. agencies, including such definitely bad risks as the Offices of Strategic Services and War Information, which often send their men prowling under enemy guns; such medium individual risks as Harry L. Hopkins, Edward R. Stettinius, and other air-traveling statesmen and Congressmen. By last week Equitable had sold some $50,000,000 worth of such insurance, and as the program neared its second anniversary, actuaries had to whistle over some amazing actuarial facts...