Word: stettiniuses
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...going to be Secretary of State. Now the talk was that his ability to run the State Department and front for the U.S. in world affairs was no longer in serious question. What worried the new powers in Washington, said the conference grapevine, was the thought that Ed Stettinius, as Secretary of State, was next in line of succession to the Presidency...
...Companions. Stettinius made capital of his frequent telephone checks with President Truman and Cordell Hull, never failing to give them credit for advice or decisions, when doing so would strengthen the U.S. position. He relied on daily, minute "briefings" by his department experts, remembered what he was told with amazing exactitude, and did not hide the fact that he would often have been at a loss without this assistance...
Once or twice, when he was in a tight corner at committee meetings, he looked to Anthony Eden for guidance. By comparison with Eden, whetted by 19 years of disciplined British diplomacy, or with Molotov, the hardened product of ruthless revolution, Ed Stettinius seemed almost callow. But when the chips were down, he earned their respect and that of the conference...
Some of the wisest diplomats in San Francisco felt that his seeming victory in getting the shabby Argentine Government admitted to the conference (TIME, May 7) had in fact been a triumph for Molotov, Stettinius' forthright support of Argentina, said they, unnecessarily pointed up the disproportionate voting strength of the U.S.'s noisy Latin American bloc, gave Molotov a brilliantly used opportunity to pose as the conference's moral spokesman in opposing the Argentine jingoes, and generally cost the U.S. more than it gained...
...Stettinius could hardly have taken any other course. The recent trend of hemisphere policy, not to mention the pledges at the recent Mexico City conference, had committed the U.S. to a straight power game, as amoral as Russia's game in eastern Europe. In the case of Argentina the two gamesters clashed, and the U.S. won the dubious showdown. Thoroughly at home in that kind of contest, Molotov next day blandly joshed Stettinius and Eden: "You know, gentlemen, that little voting game we had yesterday may become a dangerous game. Imagine a country having at her disposal...