Word: stettiniuses
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...mahogany desk in the oval study had been cleared of all of Franklin Roosevelt's crowding knickknacks. On it lay only a Bible, a thesaurus, and a leather-bound pictorial history of the U.S. In rapid order, President Truman had a 45-minute conference with Secretary of State Stettinius, then a 48-minute session with the war leaders: Generals Marshall, Vandegrift and the Air Forces' Barney M. Giles (subbing for "Hap" Arnold); Admiral King; Secretaries Stimson and Forrestal. At noon he broke his first precedent: he went up to Capitol Hill for lunch...
...President Truman he hurried back to Washington. Before he had been back twelve hours, politicos were tagging him as the man Harry Truman would lean on as adviser on foreign affairs (see INTERNATIONAL). Many of them were ready to bet that before long Jimmy Byrnes would replace Ed Stettinius as Secretary of State...
...Yalta, Stettinius gave a long lecture on the U.S. idea of joint trusteeship for some postwar colonies and bases. Churchill fidgeted, smoldered, finally exploded with a question to Stalin: "Now tell me, would you allow the Crimea to be placed under a mandate?" Stalin chuckled and said: "Well, I think I'd let the Big Three decide." Churchill cooled off, and Roosevelt got the talk back on the rails...
...Stettinius, sure to stay on as Secretary of State through the San Francisco conference, but sure of nothing after that, unconsciously stated his hope and position when he said last week: "Oh, we're not going to let the President down. When anything comes up I shall say that this I propose, or support, in the name of the dead President: we have made the commitments...
...Secretary Stettinius' insistence, scholarly, bespectacled John Foster Dulles, Tom Dewey's foreign affairs adviser in 1944, last week agreed to go to San Francisco as an adviser to the U.S. delegation...