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In Washington the ex-Ambassador to France, William C. Bullitt, is advance man with trial-balloon speeches; and Assistant Secretary of State Adolf A. Berle Jr. has long been assigned the problem of the U.S. ultimate peace aims-which he has boiled down to three words, "Peace without empire." And...
Through one long day the President held council with Secretaries Cordell Hull and Henry Stimson, Under Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal, General Marshall. Admiral Stark. The conference began in the morning, broke off for lunch and new business, began again, with Secretary Morgenthau and Harry Hopkins added, in the...
The middle-readers were predominantly Nelson, judicial, greying Under Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson, debonair, trigger-quick Under Secretary of Navy James V. Forrestal. Patterson and Forrestal clung to the road's middle as desperately as if the road shoulders were mined.
No secret was it that unofficial U. S. promises of economic aid had much to do with swinging other countries into line behind the Hull program. Back of the diplomatic front in Havana had worked sever al men who held the strings of the U. S. moneybags: President Milo Randolph...
This week to Washington went Princetonman James Vincent Forrestal, after turning in his resignation as president of the top-flight Wall Street investment house of Dillon, Read & Co. His new job: No. 4 of Franklin D. Roosevelt's $10,000-a-year administrative assistants "with a passion for anonymity...