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...never an expert at paper-shuffling, has long left the actual administration of the Department to his chief aide, Sumner Welles. And Cordell Hull may choose not to retire. But even if Welles never becomes Secretary, he will still hold his present power: through Presidential choice, his own ability, background and natural stamina, he is the chief administrative officer of U.S. foreign policy. In the War of Brains, he is a field marshal...
Working persistently, learning patience and the wiles of politics from old Cordell Hull, who is rich in guile, Welles has carefully sketched in the background for the practical operation of the Hemisphere in a friendly alliance, unified of purpose. He admits that many of the problems seem insoluble today; he does not admit they will always be insoluble. Before him he has the example of Mr. Hull, who worked with single mind and infinite patience for 25 years to get his reciprocal-trade principle accepted by the world, saw it overthrown five years later by Adolf Hitler, yet has never...
...White House) and FORTUNE'S Surveyor Elmo Burns Roper Jr. (see p. 15). Bob Sherwood will have charge of morale warfare-i.e., such campaigns as Britain's "V for Victory" drive in Nazi-occupied territory. Elmo Roper will take care of all kinds of background research...
...only two present prospects: Under Secretary of War Robert Patterson, who was without industrial and financial background, and inclined to rigidity of mind, but active; and Supreme Court Justice William Orville Douglas, who was tough and fast but too skeptical of U.S. businessmen's abilities, and who would not consider a top defense job unless he had absolute power to hire & fire. The President, who loves to hire but hates to fire, dislikes giving his top officers such absolute power...
Such was the background of Dr. Schairer's conference in Ann Arbor last week. Basic assumption in his group's discussions: at war's end Hitlerism will be defeated and Europe will be chaotic. Not ready to plump for the Danish scheme, the brain trust nevertheless favored a decentralized economic system, held that electrification would make it possible to disperse industry. At week's end, they announced their plan...