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...many .weeks a question has fascinated capital gossips and bothered Administration officials: What will happen to Harold Stassen when his Foreign Operations Administration expires June...
Besides its interest to Harold Stassen, the question was important because, pending its solution, no decision could be made on how to reorganize foreign-aid programs. Last week FOAdministrator Stassen returned from a 30,000-mile seven-country tour of Asia, to report on U.S. aid needs there, and the world learned about his next assignment: the President has appointed him a special White House Assistant for Disarmament...
Said President Eisenhower: "The recent session of the disarmament commission of the U. N. has again resulted in no progress and no clear crystallization of thinking on this subject. It has an inseparable relationship to our constant objective of peace." Stassen's new post carries Cabinet rank, probably the first such that any government has devoted exclusively to disarmament...
...agency, his chief should consult the other agency "to avoid conflicting evaluations." This is an obvious outgrowth of the Ladejinsky case (TIME, Jan. 3 et seq.), in which Agricultural Attache Wolf Ladejinsky, long since cleared by the State Department, was fired by Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson, rehired by Harold Stassen...
President Eisenhower felt embarrassed and angry when the Agriculture Department rejected Wolf Ladejinsky as Tokyo attache (TIME, Jan. 3 et. seq.-). Last week with White House approval, Ladejinsky got security clearance and another job (at his previous salary: $11,800) with Harold Stassen's Foreign Operations Administration in South Viet Nam. Ladejinsky, who planned the U.S.-sponsored land reforms in Japan that gave 3,000,000 peasant families their own farms, will blueprint similar reforms to win South Viet Nam's peasants away from Communism before next year's elections...