Word: stettiniuses
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...troops fought Greek guerrillas. In Italy, snow-bearded Count Carlo Sforza, a longtime U.S. exile, was resoundingly vetoed for a cabinet post by Great Britain. Allied policy in liberated Europe was at a new low. The time had obviously come for the U.S. to take a stand. But Ed Stettinius waited to hear from President Roosevelt...
...word came soon enough. Ed Stettinius kept mum until his next regular press conference. He greeted the correspondents with his usual affability. Then, casually, he said he had a statement. From a scrap of paper, Ed Stettinius read...
Doctrine of "Abstention." This was certainly news, to the U.S. and the world -especially the "consistently." Along with Britain, the U.S. had been sitting on the Italian lid for 15 months, since the Italian armistice. Now the U.S. suddenly jumped off the lid. Two days later Ed Stettinius affirmed that the new policy applied also to Greece...
...Anglophobes. The Stettinius statement also gave aid & comfort to those in the U.S. who practice a secondary form of isolationism: Anglophobia. In the Senate, up rose Louisiana's stocky, curly haired Allen J. Ellender, a graduate of the Huey Long school of Tommy-gun politics, now turned world statesman. Cried...
...week's end, the Stettinius statement had roused a mixed reaction in Europe. In a ringing speech, Winston Churchill made the British position pikestaff plain (see FOREIGN NEWS). In Italy, Count Sforza was cautiously grateful for "American generosity"-but he did not get into a new government. Moscow was aloof and silent. U.S.-Soviet relations, however, had never been better...