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Averell Harriman. The President had decided on suave, handsome W. Averell Harriman as the new U.S. Ambassador to Russia, replacing gruff, blunt old Admiral William H. Standley, (TIME, Sept. 27). But it seemed probable that snow-haired Cordell Hull, if his health permits, would make the long trip to Moscow for the coming tripartite conference...
...skillful administrator. Power-jealous Cordell Hull has been bringing more & more under State Department control the many agencies that deal with foreign countries. Last week even Foreign Food Administrator Herbert Lehman, who has been mumbling resignation, gave...
...able policy maker. Presumably Cordell Hull never again wants an Under Secretary such as Welles, But the State Department is under heavy fire from U.S. citizens who believe that the management of U.S. affairs is bumbling, foolishly snooty toward liberal elements, unnecessarily solicitous of Fascists, insufficiently cooperative with the Russians and the Chinese. The sacking of Welles made him the darling of Hull's "liberal" enemies-a good deal more of a darling than perhaps he ought to be on his past record. To replace Welles with an Under Secretary whose main virtue is that he is a Hull...
Most frequently mentioned for the job thus far have been Breckinridge Long and Dean Acheson. now Assistant Secretaries of State; Ambassador to Mexico George S. Messersmith; James C. Dunn, political relations adviser to Hull; and Wayne Coy, Assistant Director of the Budget. None of these would solve Franklin Roosevelt's dilemma. Under the present organization of the Department, no one could be a really successful Under Secretary...
...verdict a "farce," a "travesty" and "disgustingly inadequate." The Detroit Free Press called it a "white wash" and "an insult to the fighting forces." The Detroit Times said "it will smell to heaven," and went back 131 years to find a local parallel of military shame when "the coward Hull surrendered De troit to the British without even swinging a punch...