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...most thoroughgoing Government reorganizations in New Deal history. He abolished the Lend-Lease Administration (Edward R. Stettinius), the Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations (Herbert Lehman), the Office of Economic Warfare (Leo Crowley), and the Office of Foreign Economic Coordination (Assistant Secretary of State Dean Acheson...
Most frequently mentioned for the job thus far have been Breckinridge Long and Dean Acheson. now Assistant Secretaries of State; Ambassador to Mexico George S. Messersmith; James C. Dunn, political relations adviser to Hull; and Wayne Coy, Assistant Director of the Budget. None of these would solve Franklin Roosevelt's dilemma. Under the present organization of the Department, no one could be a really successful Under Secretary...
...Department No. 3 is that segment of U.S. foreign relations which Franklin Roosevelt reserves for himself, working through miscellaneous aides. This segment has expanded ever since the start of World War II, includes matters handled by Assis tant Secretaries Adolf Berle and Dean Acheson,and others handled by such quasi-foreign-relations agencies as OEW, OFRRO and the Nelson Rockefeller Committee...
...York Times pundit, Arthur Krock, veteran defender of Mr. Hull, was already on record that the best solution would be, in effect, for Mr. Roosevelt to oust Messrs. Welles, Berle and Acheson, and let Cordell Hull run foreign affairs...
After consultation with his committee, Diplomat Acheson will appoint a field director for each liberated (or to-be-liberated) territory. The director will act as operations manager for all the agencies represented on the committee...