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...clock, on the afternoon of April 25, Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius Jr. struck his gavel three times on the podium and said: "The first plenary session of the United Nations Conference on World Organization is hereby convened...
Senator-Statesman. Although Secretary of State Stettinius is head of the U.S. delegation, all eyes at San Francisco will be on the Michigan Senator. (A representative of a small nation, asked last week whom he regarded as the small nations' champion in conference free-for-alls, unhesitatingly replied: Vandenberg...
Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov waved a grey fedora and smiled when he stepped from a U.S. Army plane at Washington's airport this week. Greeted by Edward R. Stettinius Jr., Mr. Molotov kept on smiling and stared at a point midway between the Secretary of State's chin and navel. Posing later with Stettinius, Anthony Eden, Sir Archibald Clark Kerr and Ambassadors Harriman and Gromyko, the Foreign Commissar stared at nothing in particular (see cut}. Mr. Molotov's companions regarded this as encouraging...
...Hammer & Sickle flag was flying on Lee Mansion, just across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House, when Molotov paused for a brief rest and brush-up after his flight from Moscow. Then Mr. Stettinius took him over to meet President Truman for the first time. As always, Molotov had to speak through an interpreter. When Stettinius and Molotov emerged, they were not smiling. From the President down, Mr. Molotov's U.S. hosts were prepared to look their guest in the eye, be tougher with him than they had ever been before. So were the British. It was, they...
...First Fruits. Truman told Stettinius and the Senate delegates, Connally and Vandenberg, to run their show-and run it well- at the San Francisco conference. Characteristically and instinctively, he decided that he had better stay away. Too much of U.S. diplomacy was buried with Mr. Roosevelt. Too much was yet to be absorbed, weighed, reappraised in conversations with Byrnes and Stettinius...