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...poll conducted by Look. Fifty-two newspaper correspondents picked the ten most and ten least useful officials in Washington, gave Madam Secretary the top spot on the "least useful" list. On the positive side they chose: General George C. Marshall (on the lists of 44 correspondents); Cordell Hull (on 33); Franklin Roosevelt (on only 32, but leading more lists - 24 - than anyone else...
...Secret Three. Created at the Moscow Conference (Hull, Eden, Molotov), the Advisory Commission began work last December in London's barnlike Lancaster House, overlooking flat, shady Green Park. The commissioners: Lincolnesque U.S. Ambassador John Gilbert Winant; cautious, deadpan Russian Ambassador Fedor Gusev; the British Foreign Office's lanky, tireless Sir William Strang...
...this forthrightness dispel the ambiguities in U.S. Secretary Cordell Hull's recent statement that Washington was disposed to let the Algiers Committee exercise leadership in France? Things actually were not that simple. Buck-passing Washington has passed the buck on the question of whom to deal with and not to deal with during and immediately after the invasion-that was still, said Washington, strictly General Dwight D. Eisenhower's business. Last week that overburdened officer had to turn from pre-invasion military chores, confer on French politics with General Joseph Pierre Koenig, doughty hero of Bir Hacheim...
Knox's death at 70 was the first in Franklin Roosevelt's war cabinet, though as the New Deal has aged it has become increasingly a gerontocracy.* (Four other cabinet members are in their seventies: Stimson, 76; Hull, 72; Jones and Ickes...
Like Franklin Roosevelt and Cordell Hull, Senator Kenneth Douglas McKellar considers Columnist Drew Pearson a liar. Last week on the Senate floor the feuding, 75-year-old Tennessean said so, 23 times, in a speech covering three and a half pages of the Congressional Record...