Word: stettiniuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stettinius, chief U.S. delegate to the Preparatory Commission of the United Nations Organization, was only half successful in his efforts to speed up U.N.O.'s timetable in London. At the rate the Council of Foreign Ministers was drafting treaties, U.N.O. would be organized in time to enforce them. The question was whether, when that time came, the nations would really trust U.N.O...
Assembly would meet, and what it would do. Despite the hurry-up efforts of Edward R. Stettinius Jr., the committeemen sometimes haggled for hours over the inclusion, omission or interpretation of a single word...
...Stettinius wanted an organizational meeting of the Assembly in November or early December, at which special committees, as well as the permanent councils provided for in the charter, would be selected to draw up agenda for the first plenary session in the spring...
...Stettinius had redecorated the high-ceilinged walls and put two telephones in the Secretary's private bathroom. Jimmy Byrnes left the old, grey pile of masonry on Pennsylvania Avenue alone, but he changed the topside of the staff. It is now extraordinarily varied...
Besides Dunn, the only other member of Ed Stettinius' team whom Byrnes kept in his old job was Assistant Secretary Will Clayton, an ex-cotton broker, millionaire, friend of Jesse Jones, and shrewd economic horse trader currently negotiating postwar loans with the British (see INTERNATIONAL). For Assistant Secretary in charge of Latin American affairs, he picked barrel-shaped Spruille Braden, who talked tough to the Argentines. For Assistant Secretary in charge of administration he chose 33-year-old Colonel Frank McCarthy, fresh off General Marshall's staff...