Word: stettiniuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
Tanks & Locusts. This was measured, not by the President, but by white-thatched Edward R. Stettinius Jr., 43, who ran Lend-Lease from August 1941 until it merged with Leo Crowley's Foreign Economic Administration last September. Now Under Secretary of State, Stettinius this week published a fat, 358-page book, Lend-Lease: Weapon for Victory (MacMillan; $3). (Although he signed and sweated over it, the book is actually the joint effort of Stettinius and some 50 others in & out of Lend-Lease, with a final polish by professional writers.) Straightforward, barren of "inside information," the book offers...
Give & Take. Author Stettinius has some meaty facts for famine shouters, who have loudly blamed Lend-Lease for U.S. food shortages. Said he: "In the overall picture the Lend-Lease slice of American food has been small-6% in 1942 and about 10% in 1943. In crucial items the percentage has been even smaller . . . half a pound of beef out of every hundred pounds, three quarts of milk in a hundred, one of every 100 cans of vegetables...
Like the President, Author Stettinius firmly believes that Lend-Lease will open a new era of postwar trade. But will the dispatch of such Lend-Lease materials as machine tools to England, of complete plants and refineries to Russia, mean serious competition for the postwar U.S.? Under Secretary Stettinius is not worried. He wrote: "What have we to fear? The United States should be the last country in the world to fear competition after the war is won. . . . We shall have by far the greatest industrial power, immense material resources, a country undamaged by the enemy, businessmen who can stand...
This week Secretary of State Cordell Hull, back from a rest in Hot Springs, Va., introduced his new Under Secretary to a press conference with a verbal bouquet. Smiling and with hands on the back of a chair in the familiar Hull manner, Ed Stettinius said: "This is the climax of my young career." The man who left a $100,000 headship of U.S. Steel to enter Government service, who was generally praised for his work as Lend-Lease Administrator (TIME, Oct. 4), now faced the toughest administrative job of his career. Largely in his hands was the direction...