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...coherent conception of U.S. foreign policy, and a willingness to define, accept and fulfill U.S. responsibilities abroad. In broad but heartening generalities the President stated such a conception and such a willingness. And in so doing, he apparently wiped clean the State Department slate -on which his new Secretary Stettinius had recently scrawled the hasty word "abstention...
...past two years chief counsel for War Mobilizer Byrnes. Having done much of the spade work on Dumbarton Oaks, able legalist Ben Cohen had coveted the now-vacant job of counselor to the State Department. Furthermore he had been offered the job by Secretary of State Stettinius...
...suddenly, after a hurry-up Stettinius visit to the White House, the offer was withdrawn. Cohen's friends had their own explanation: Harry Hopkins had cast the blackball. Incensed, Ben Cohen resigned from Government service, was persuaded to stay only after an hour's conference with Franklin Roosevelt himself...
Then Secretary Stettinius led newsmen, photographers and team into a conference room, and, pointer in hand, showed a chart of the State Department reorganization. One hopeful correspondent interjected: "Winston Churchill has made another speech. . . ." Ed Stettinius brushed her aside with a wave of his classroom pointer. The State Department's big news was the new State Department...
Next day Ed Stettinius hired a hall (the D.A.R.'s Constitution Hall) for $478.20, the bill to be paid by himself and team. Some 2,500 employes-clerks, decoders, secretaries and porters-heard the U.S. Marine Band toot out Colonel Bogey March and El Capitan and then watched as Ed Stettinius, with unflagging enthusiasm, presented his new assistants...