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That afternoon Hopkins flew south to Mediterranean Headquarters near Naples, where he met belated Edward R. Stettinius Jr. Wholly overshadowed by Harry Hopkins, the Secretary of State apparently saw nobody of political importance except Ambassador Kirk. After a dinner with U.S. Generals Ira C. Eaker and Joseph T. McNarney, Messrs. Stettinius and Hopkins hoarded separate planes, vanished into the Big Three silence...
Meanwhile the U.S. press began playing at evasions, adding up small facts for its readers but stopping short of real information. Washington newsmen, who had watched Jimmy Byrnes, Harry Hopkins, Ed Stettinius, Judge Samuel I. Rosenman, and Anna Roosevelt Boettiger disappear frcm town, were nettled to read about it in Manhattan gossip columns. Picking up the ball, the New York Times's Cy Sulzberger cabled from Cairo that the Big Three were rumored to be already in session "in the Black Sea area . . . near the Soviet Union's southern borders...
...President hoped that Jesse Jones would continue to stay in the Government. He told him to drop around and see Ed Stettinius one of these days to see if there was an ambassadorship open. The letter, which began, "Dear Jesse," closed with "warm regards...
Those who know the details of what Hopkins does form a small circle indeed?Generals Marshall and Arnold, Admirals King and Leahy, Cabinet Members Stimson, Forrestal and Stettinius, and, of course, the President?men not given to idle chatter. On many a problem, the fine line of just where the President leaves off and Hopkins takes up is a matter privy to them alone, and public knowledge of it must await their memoirs, which Hopkins?being the kind of man he is?will probably never write. Said one eminent Washingtonian who has often worked with Hopkins : "The people who dislike...
...Conference Enough. This spadework done, U.S. Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius sent the Pan American Union the formal U.S. reply. "There is going to be a conference in which the Argentine question can be discussed," it said in effect. "One conference is enough...