Word: stettiniuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into the White House one day last week, past the iron gates, buzzed busy Ed Stettinius, just off the plane from San Francisco. His grey homburg was at a jaunty angle, his humor good. Twenty minutes later he emerged with happy tidings. President Truman, he announced, would visit the San Francisco conference...
Secretary Stettinius in a report to the nation this week said: "The sovereignty of no nation, not even the most powerful, is absolute. There is no such thing as complete freedom of decision for any nation." Even so, sovereignty turned up every day at San Francisco. When Colombia's Alberto Lleras Camargo said that Argentina should be admitted to the conference without questioning Argentine fascism,† he based his case on the right of a sovereign state to have any kind of government it pleased. Some of the Europeans, who knew well the connection between domestic suppression and foreign...
...delegation's principal advisers were John Foster Dulles and Hamilton Fish Armstrong. Dulles, who would have been Secretary of State if Tom Dewey had been elected President, worked well and loyally for Stettinius. Armstrong's vast knowledge of foreign affairs was immensely useful to the delegation's amateurs. The State Department's Leo Pasvolsky, with the eyes of a tired owl, knew more about the Dumbarton Oaks plan than any one else. Archibald MacLeish shepherded a restless horde of consultants, and Nelson Rockefeller Avas able scoutmaster for the Latin Americans. Rockefeller gave the Europeans an unpleasant...
Viacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, Russia's sharp-eyed, correct Commissar for Foreign Affairs, was rated the top "glamor boy" of the San Francisco conference by Britain's pert Delegate Ellen Wilkinson, Labor M.P. Her one qualification: Molotov (unlike Britain's Eden and America's Stettinius) was not really very glamorous "to look...
Equitable sold policies to employes of some 40 U.S. agencies, including such definitely bad risks as the Offices of Strategic Services and War Information, which often send their men prowling under enemy guns; such medium individual risks as Harry L. Hopkins, Edward R. Stettinius, and other air-traveling statesmen and Congressmen. By last week Equitable had sold some $50,000,000 worth of such insurance, and as the program neared its second anniversary, actuaries had to whistle over some amazing actuarial facts...