Word: stettiniuses
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Under Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius Jr. arrived in London last week, settled into a pastel suite (with a blue telephone) at Claridge's, spent the Easter weekend with Winston Churchill...
Ahead of Ed Stettinius, in his first big job of diplomacy, was a long tussle with European politics and personages. His introduction to the personages began at once. Lunching at Claridge's, he sat down at a table which he had previously occupied. The headwaiter promptly shooed him away, explaining that the table was reserved for King George of Greece...
...farewell party for Under Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius Jr. and his experts, expected to go to London for what Cordell Hull called "talks . . . informal and exploratory . . . [on] matters that are of interest to the two Governments at this time." In the party was energetic many-medaled Dr. Isaiah Bowman, 65-year-old president of Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Bowman, whose books, map-making and fact-finding expeditions (notably in South America) made him a front-rank political geographer-as opposed to geopolitical writers-was a ranking adviser of Woodrow Wilson at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, there...
...Found the headlines sprouting red-hot rumors of another Roosevelt-Churchill meeting, perhaps immediately after the Stettinius conferences. The rumors seemed logical; there was certainly plenty to talk about. Some hinted that Joseph Stalin might again make it a Big Threesome...
Diplomats understood perfectly what it was that the Kremlin wanted Churchill and Stettinius to keep in mind while talking with King Peter: no compromise with Mihailovich and friends...