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Peter kept as mum as a king should, pending his talks with Churchill, Eden and Stettinius, due in London soon. But his aides made sure that newsmen saw the eight-point plan that Peter or Purich, or both, hoped to put across. The four main points: divide Yugoslavia between Tito and Mihailovich; set up a joint headquarters under Allied supervision; tell both factions to stop bickering; put off all political settlements until after the war, when King Peter would submit to a plebiscite before attempting to resume his throne...
Diplomatically, the lid was on. But Acting Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius Jr. indicated that a "comprehensive announcement" of U.S. plans and policy was being readied...
Died. William James Filbert, 78, legendary senior director of U.S. Steel; in Manhattan. The bald, keen-eyed master statistician, known as the world's richest clerk, succeeded Myron C. Taylor as chairman of Steel's finance committee (1934), was succeeded by Edward Riley Stettinius...
When handsome, white-topped Edward R. Stettinius became Under Secretary of State, things perked up. The State Department's crusty old walls got a coat of paint. Higher-watt light bulbs blossomed in the dim hallways. Officials of the traditionally standoffish Department stepped up to NBC microphones with a weekly series of folksy Saturday night dialogues ("The State Department Speaks"). Last week the streamlining reached a climax. The Department announced a stem-to-stern shake-up of its whole shop-a reorganization to grapple more realistically with the new U.S. role in a new kind of world...
...Postwar Programs). There was a well-staffed new Division of Public Information. An Assistant Secretary was to work full time at the essential job of relations with Congress. There was an Office of Economic Affairs, an excitement-charged Office of Special Political Affairs, a Liberated Areas Division. Hereafter, Planner Stettinius indicated, U.S. foreign relations should be conducted a good deal more smoothly...