Word: stettiniuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...work on a rough draft of the Great Blueprint for Peace (TIME, June 12.)* Stately old Dumbarton Oaks, in Washington's fashionable Georgetown, was made ready down to the last pebble on its carefully graveled walks. The U.S. had named its Under Secretary of State, Edward R. Stettinius, as chairman of the U.S. delegation, thus, in diplomatic language, hoping to underscore its view-that other representatives should be at the important level of Under Secretaries. England and China followed suit, appointed the veteran Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Sir Alexander Cadogan (rhymes with shruggin...
...British diplomats had expected, neither the Vice Commissar of Foreign Affairs, Maxim Litvinoff, nor Andrei Vishinsky. He was youngish (35) Andrei Andreevich Gromyko, who holds his first important post as Ambassador to the U.S., and who is only a little less inexperienced than Ed Stettinius...
...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...
...proof that Britain and the U.S. would not unite to put economic pressure on Argentina. Washington, still confident that Britain would cooperate if called upon, dismissed the London press comments as merely the screams of British moneymen fearful for their Argentine investments. Acting Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius quoted last week's speech by Winston Churchill, "Argentina . . . has chosen to dally with evil, and not only with evil but with the losing side...
...wake of departed Under Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius Jr. (see p. 12), London last week bandied two reports: 1) that the Polish exiled Government and Soviet Russia are much nearer agreement than surface difficulties indicate; 2) that something very like a new, sense-making League of Nations is shaping...