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Then Secretary Stettinius led newsmen, photographers and team into a conference room, and, pointer in hand, showed a chart of the State Department reorganization. One hopeful correspondent interjected: "Winston Churchill has made another speech. . . ." Ed Stettinius brushed her aside with a wave of his classroom pointer. The State Department's big news was the new State Department...
Staff Sergeant Henry Telker peered through shifting skeins of fog at the Philippine shore, looked at his small, wobbly compass, jotted in his log: "Location doubtful, chart little or no help...
...fine Virginia ham to the Prime Minister's wife, conferred with General Eisenhower, had a fireside chat with the King, and shook hands with every top diplomat in sight. (In England he was even more tweedy than the British.) Home again, he worked long on an elaborate chart "reorganizing" the State Department. The only major changes proved to be the disgruntled departures of such able men as Dr. Herbert Feis and Laurence Duggan, but this was the fault of feuding Cordell Hull, who was not keen on reorganization, anyway. Stettinius is proud of his attempt to redecorate the department...
...Malaria discipline and DDT (TIME, March 6), have cut the incidence of malaria 75%. The rate is around 150 per 1,000 men per year overseas, a new low-so low in the continental U.S. that it does not show on the chart. "New agents," plus insecticides and repellents, might eliminate malaria, at least in the Western Hemisphere...
...Belgian children were not the worst off in Western Europe's unfolding malnutrition chart. The farther the Allied troops advanced, the hungrier they found the population. Imported food was a necessity. Food was also politics, for the lack of food could lead to unrest and delay Europe's rehabilitation...