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...Made one appointment which was almost unanimously decried: tall, smooth Edward J. Flynn, successful Boss of The Bronx and unsuccessful chairman of the National Democratic Committee, to be the President's personal Ambassador and Minister to Australia. To critics who failed to find any diplomatic qualifications in the background of hard-bitten Politician Flynn, this looked like the worst kind of lame-duck appointment. Cried Wendell Willkie: "The appointment is ... revolting to all decent citizens. The difference between the high professions of President Roosevelt's and Vice President Wallace's speeches and the Administration...
...Dudley, and clubs. Slates below include men added by petition. FreshmenSophomores Blaise Francis Alfano Hugh Calkins Bradbury Rufus Clark Michael Joseph De Leo Lawrence Creshkoff William Francis Di Pesa Worth Bagley Daniels, Jr. Peter Garland Michael David Fansler Nicholas Chester Gilles Frederick Wellman Flickinger Edward Perry Harding Wallace Joseph Flynn Dean McDonald Hennessy Robert Crittenden Green Colin Franklin Newell Irving Allen Wilkinson Greer Charles Mellish Kidner Harlan Philip Hanson James Edmund McNulty, Jr. Robert Mayes Hart Richard Watson Mechem Stephen Bradshaw Ives, Jr. Sedgwick Minot, Jr. Russell Scot Leavitt Maurice Machado Osborne, Jr. Paul Latshaw Miller Francis Parkman, Jr. Frank...
...Walter Flynn...
Styled by Republicans as "...an insult to the Australians..." the nomination of Edward J. Flynn as United States Minister to Australia has implications far more serious than mere inter-party knife-throwing. Lacking both the background and the training necessary for delicate diplomacy, Flynn owes his appointment to peculiar political circumstances. These circumstances make him much less than satisfactory to the Democratic Party of which he is chairman. But they do little to make him the ideal successor of the current minister, Nelson Johnson, and they may well serve to disrupt long-sought unity at home and abroad...
...Flynn has little to recommend him for his post. His personal success as a New York City political boss led him to the chairmanship of the Democratic Party but it didn't make him any part of an authority on Australia in particular or the Far East in general. Nor did it introduce him to the wiles and subtleties of international diplomacy. In fact, it hasn't been of sufficient substances to withstand the ill effects of the "Belgian Paving Block Scandal" in which it was charged, though never proved, that New York City workers had used paving blocks belonging...