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Temporarily mollified, Pepper called off his threatened filibuster. The Senate hastily confirmed Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius' team, and went home. But New Deal Congressmen still had reservations about three, in particular, of the six appointees: William L. Clayton, whom they consider a "cartelist"; Brigadier General Julius C. Holmes, whom they partly blame for the Darlan policy in 1942; veteran Diplomat James Dunn, whom they regard as the villain of the U.S. appeasement policy toward Franco...
...good fellowship. Painters slapped pistachio green on the drab cream walls of State's drafty old home on Washington's Pennsylvania Avenue. A panting porter lugged away Cordell Hull's cherished rubber plant. Under scaffolds and around carpet-menders, platinum-topped Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius bustled like a busy host at a party. He invited the press to the swearing-in of five of his six new top aides,* whom he fondly calls his team. In the midst of the ceremony, he invited able Dean Acheson, the only big holdover from Hull's regime...
...newsmen trooped into Ed Stettinius' office to test the new businesslike effectiveness. Stettinius was cordial, as always. He was also mum as a clam. The correspondents probed and pounced, trying one approach after another, but to no avail. The New Dealing New York Post's William O. Player asked: "Does the U.S. attitude depend on Churchill?" Replied Ed Stettinius: "No comment." To all questions, he returned the same answer. Finally, the Chicago Sun's exasperated Tom Reynolds remarked tartly: "It seems to be possible to be more frank in London." Once again, Stettinius purred an amiable...
...citizen faces a U.S. Congressional quiz, the ensuing scene is apt to resemble a medieval inquisition. When a poet undergoes the same ordeal, it is more likely to resemble murder. Last week, lank, sallow, liberal Poet Archibald MacLeish, Librarian of Congress and one of Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius' new team of assistants, was almost bumped off by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...
...reading: " 'They have soaked themselves in the rancid odor of capitalistic stupidity and greed. . . .'" With a note of triumph in his voice, the Senator asked: "Mr. MacLeish, do you think you would be able to bear, with your sensitive nostrils, standing in the same room with Ed Stettinius, Will Clayton, Mr. Grew and people like that...