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...Alec" and "Andrei." Hearty, handsome Under Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius grappled with such matters all week. As host to the 39 diplomats (ten Russians, eleven Britons, 18 Americans), he felt the impulse to introduce a little fun-&-games into the delegates' off-hours...
...known as "Junior" in Washington) had been much struck with the President's breezily informal address to the conferees, in which Mr. Roosevelt cheerfully pointed out that getting along was all a matter of getting together and of liking each other. The very next day Ed Stettinius began heartily backslapping the British and Russians, and would call loudly, "Alec!" and "Andrei!" to the British chief, Sir Alexander Cadogan, and the Russian chief, Andrei Gromyko. Sir Alexander, 59, an urbane, reserved British Foreign Office specialist, winced slightly; Ambassador Gromyko gave a scarcely perceptible shrug. But both bore up bravely under...
...take the whole kit-&-kaboodle to New York for a typical American businessman's weekend in Manhattan? This proposal was received with mixed feelings. (Said the State Department's Leo Pasvolsky, "It is too frivolous!") But many delegates were keen to go, and pretty soon Host Stettinius had most of them aboard a plane, off for the big city. Naturally the secrecy was intensified-perhaps no Russian wanted Joseph Stalin to hear too many lush details of bouncing about in night clubs...
That night silver-haired Under Secretary Edward R. Stettinius Jr., head of the U.S. delegation, entertained at Washington's swank Carlton Hotel. The menu: broiled chicken, peach ice cream, California wines. Next day: high tea at Blair House. Each day the delegates rode out to Dumbarton Oaks in Army cars for a two-hour morning session and another two-hour grind in the afternoon...
...minute ceremony one day last week, Under Secretary of State Stettinius and Lord Beaverbrook signed a British-U.S. oil agreement aimed at ending cutthroat competition between the two nations. In its final form the agreement's provisions are virtually the same as those the oil experts gave their Governments for approval last spring (TIME, May 15). Under it the two nations (which control about 90% of the world's oil) will set up an eight-man international commission by which they hope to: 1) stabilize postwar world oil markets; 2) provide orderly development of world oil properties...