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Britain's plan - more of a series of notes, actually - as brought to the conference by the short, urbane Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Sir Alexander Cadogan, coincided generally with the known outlines of the U.S. program. Neither called for a world police force...
...State, Edward R. Stettinius, as chairman of the U.S. delegation, thus, in diplomatic language, hoping to underscore its view-that other representatives should be at the important level of Under Secretaries. England and China followed suit, appointed the veteran Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Sir Alexander Cadogan (rhymes with shruggin') and the veteran Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Victor...
...Washington this week, Britain's Sir Alexander Cadogan tried to breathe some hope. He said Britain, in the main, backed the U.S. blueprint for peace. And he added that the Russians had finally put their program in writing and would bring it to the conference. But few observers believed that the men who assemble at Dumbarton Oaks next week will do any major architecting on a peace program...
...surprisingly, he surrenders the all-important Foreign Ministry, gossips' candidates for his successor are Permanent Foreign Under Secretary Sir Alexander Cadogan (rhymes with muggin') and Robert Arthur James Cecil, Viscount Cran-borne, Dominions Secretary and Leader of the House of Lords. Stooped, willowy, witty Lord Cranborne and Eden were known as the "Foreign Office Twins" when they worked together in the governments of Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain. Their views were so close together that when Eden quit as Foreign Secretary in 1938 in protest against appeasement, Lord Cranborne, his Under Secretary, followed with outspoken approval. Nothing since...
...Roosevelt the President" and "Roosevelt the Man." The party roared on in high good humor, until young Private Hopkins' eyes were boggling out at the flow of liquor and the animated scenes around him: General Marshall and Randolph Churchill talking to Elliott; Molotov excitedly talking with Eden and Cadogan; Hap Arnold laboriously exchanging anecdotes with Voroshilov...