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...bottled up in his Senate Foreign Relations Committee Harry Truman's nomination of onetime Attorney General Francis Biddle as U.S. representative on the U.N.'s Social and Economic Council. Biddle finally requested that his name be withdrawn. The President's prompt second choice: Willard L. Thorp, Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, who had Vandenberg's warm backing...
Under Secretary of State Dean Acheson made the challenge clear in a speech at Wesleyan University (see box). In New York, Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs Willard Thorp pointedly reminded U.S. businessmen and farmers that their present prosperity largely depends on foreign exports (see BUSINESS). In California, State Department Counselor Ben Cohen stated the shocking price as the Department has reckoned it -$5 to $6 billion a year for the next three or four years. What had not yet been mentioned was State's conviction that loans would not be enough: the money would have...
...feet, is now exporting nearly $12 billion a year more than it is importing. Up to now, the gap has been filled by hoarded dollar balances, gold reserves, loans and credits. But these dollar balances are being used up so fast that in Manhattan last week, Willard L. Thorp, Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs warned: "The level of our foreign trade in the immediate future will be largely determined by the volume of American aid and assistance. At the moment, there remain less than $5 billion of unused governmental commitments, plus the resources of the International Bank...
...third night, grappling with the economic clauses of the Balkan treaties, they reeled off 17 hours of continuous session-broken only by a ten-minute recess at 4 a.m. to permit delegates to get bracers before the bar closed. At the finish, U.S. Economist Willard Thorp slumped down Luxembourg's red-carpeted stairway and crawled into an automobile. He groaned that he had a crick in his neck, cramps in his fingers, aches everywhere; that he wanted a haircut, shave, bath, sleep. As he left, Senator Arthur Vandenberg, sprucely pink, walked into the committee room. "Ah," said a reporter...
Died. Mabel Thorp Boardman, 85, queenly* humanitarian who in 40 years as unpaid national secretary of the American Red Cross built on Clara Barton's idea a world-famed organization with 29,000,000 member-contributors ; of coronary thrombosis; in Washington...