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...Henry Cabot Lodge chose as his U.N. deputy seven years ago was someone he had known since boyhood: James J. (for Jeremiah) Wadsworth. This week, as Lodge got set to hit the campaign trail, James Wadsworth, 55. flew home from Geneva prepared to succeed Lodge at the U.N. for the remaining five months of the Eisenhower Administration...
...past two years, hefty James Wadsworth (6 ft. 4 in., 225 Ibs.) has been the U.S.'s amiable, patient No. 1 negotiator in the dragged-out test-ban negotiations with Russia. Men in the Pentagon and the Atomic Energy Commission who are dubious of the possibility or the value of such an agreement have sometimes carped at Wadsworth for working too hard at it. But such carpings are not likely to interfere with Wadsworth's Senate confirmation as U.N. delegate. Republicans are eager to have him take over at the U.N. so that Lodge...
Like Cabot Lodge's, James Wadsworth's name goes back in U.S. history. His great-great-great-uncle Jeremiah Wadsworth was George Washington's commissary general. Great Grandfather James Wadsworth commanded a division in the Civil...
Maternal Grandfather John Hay was private secretary to Lincoln and McKinley's Secretary of State. Wadsworth's father James served two terms as a U.S. Senator from New York, plus 18 years as a Congressman, co-authored the 1940 peacetime draft...
...Geneva, Soviet maneuvers were just as devious. The nuclear test-ban talks sessions had gotten down to discussing about how many on-site inspections a year would be permitted. The U.S. and Great Britain wanted about 20; fortnight ago Russia consented to three. Though U.S. Delegate James J. Wadsworth rejected the Russian offer as "ludicrous and completely unacceptable," he added hopefully: "At least we now know the range of bargaining." But Russia last week rejected out of hand another U.S. proposal: to pool obsolete U.S., British and Russian atomic devices in developing instruments necessary to detect underground atomic blasts. Since...