Word: stettiniuses
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...State Department report was a compilation of some 240 separate protests made to the enemy while the war raged. Behind the stiff, formal language was apparent the rage which must have gripped Secretaries Hull and Stettinius every time a new atrocity account came in. The Department had refrained from public outburst as long...
...second time in nine months, the State Department got a house cleaning. Secretary Stettinius had brought a whole new team with him last December. Now Secretary Byrnes began to fire & hire...
...starter, out went three top members of the Stettinius team: mild, grey Under Secretary Joseph Clark Grew and Assistant Secretaries Archibald MacLeish and Julius C. Holmes. No tears were shed by those who thought Joe Grew lacked the drive and imagination for his job. Most Washingtonians agreed that MacLeish was not happily placed as the department's publicist, and few knew precisely what Julius Holmes had done (he was supposed to streamline the creaky department...
Wanted: a Title. Edward R. Stettinius Jr., U.S. member of the commission and U.S. representative in the world organization, had moved out of the State Department and taken over a quiet office in the left wing of the White House. He already had a small staff, would have a larger one as the organization and his work grew...
...Stettinius had decided to pass up the meeting of the preparatory commission's executive committee in London early next month, let someone else (probably a U.S. official already in London) represent him. The State Department's young Alger Hiss, able Secretary General of the San Francisco Conference, had declined the honor. So had Hiss's colleague, Leo Pasvolsky, who dotes on world affairs but dislikes travel. Stettinius expected to see the Charter through the Senate, stay in the U.S. until the full commission gathers in London in September...