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...best of all possible foreign programs. A lot of the charges that the State Department had housed party-liners and homosexuals had obviously stuck. But Acheson had the confidence of Administration Democrats and some support from neutral non-partisans-notably from a Republican ex-Secretary of State, Henry Stimson who, in one of the last acts before his recent death, set himself against Acheson's decriers with the indignant statement: "No one who knows his extraordinary record of able and disinterested public service can believe that he is in any danger from these little men." Observed the conservative London...
...have just had an opportunity to read the article in TIME dealing with the life and death of Mr. Stimson. I felt that I should like to say how well I thought this article dealt with Mr. Stimson's extraordinary career and character...
...when their society is mentioned; that firemen once entered Berzelius to douse a blaze and had to be accepted as members; that hair-raising and lascivious practices occur inside the meeting-place vaults. Actually the "spooks"--as sour-grapes outsiders call them--take their membership very seriously. Henry L. Stimson always stayed with fellow Bonesmen in Paris, rather than with the ambassador; Professor F. O. Matthiessen laid his Bones Key on a farewell note before jumping to his death...
...cool afternoon last week, a hundred dignitaries crowded into the shingled house on the Long Island estate where Henry L. Stimson had lived for 47 years. They gathered to pay last respects to the ex-Secretary of War who had been in the Cabinets of four Presidents. The will he left was businesslike, but he had already written a final testament. It was the "Afterword" to the memoirs Stimson wrote three years ago. Quoted at his funeral, it bequeathed a faith for his unpeaceful times...