The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-08-26

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Russia in the State Depar
Jimmy Dunn is Mr.. Hull's init
mate adviser who is most opposed
to De Gaulle, who argued for the
retention of the Italian royal fam
lily, who ardently championed Die
tator Franco, and who fought the
prc-democratic, Loyalist govern
ment in Spain. But more than
anything else he hates Soviet Rus
STA.
When you put that and a lot
of other things together with the
fact that Dunn is also MIR. Hull's
most intimate adviser, you be-
gin to understand why the Rus
slams are miffed and why Am
bassadOr LitvinOff was recalled.
Jimmy Dunn got to be Seer
tary Hulps close adviser in a Pc
culiar manner. In 1888, when
Hull jumped from the relatively
simple life of a senator to the
complicated fol-de-rol of secretary
of State, Jimmy was IN charge OF
protocol. That meant that he set
the place cards at dinner, h.et
diplomats at the Union Station,
and decided who should be in
vited to diplomatic receptions.
This job brought him into close
contact with Mrs. Hull, and the
Dunns became great friends of
the Hull family. Jimmy and Mrs.
Dunn, who is member of the
Armour meat-packing family, are
a charming couple.
FROM PROTOCOL
TO POLITICS
Jimmy was perfectly suited to
the job of deciding who should
come in first at dinner. But in
the job of No. l political adviser
to the Secretary OF State, his
mind harks back to policies, at
tuned to meat-packing millions,
which would have been backward
even in the Harding adminlstra-
ton.
He was, for instance, in COM
plete sympathy with Secretary
Hull's public denunciation OF the
alleged" Free French, when the
Free French took the islands OF
Pierre Miquelon from Vichy. He
was also heart-and-soul In favor OF
Mr.. Hull's granting passport to
Peyrouton, in order to permit the
first F'renchman who established
concentration camps to go from
Argentina to become Governor of
Algiers.
Naturally, therefore, there was
CONSERVATION inside the Soviet
Embassy in Washington when the
chief anti-Russian in the State
Department was selected by Mr..
Hull above all others to attend
the vitality important Quebec con-
versations which will decide flu
ture policy toward Russia.
A few months ago Hull would
not have dared risk public out
cry by taking Dunn to Quebec.
His doing SO now means that
Undersecretary of State Sumner
Welles, liberal in his attitude
toward Russia, had been sup
planted.
There were other things also
known to the Soviet which the
outside world did not know about
fully. One was that the British
and American governments had
secretly arranged the armistice
terms for Italy without the State
Department breathing a word to
the Russian government.
LEFT IN COLD
When you are fighting war as
allies, and when you arrange the
plans for the surrender Of one OF
your three chief enemies, it Is GUS
tomary policy to tell all your part
uers about the surrender terms
least, you are courteous enough to
let them see the terms, If for
no other reason than simply be-
cause you don't want them to
make separate peace DeIlnlo your
back. But although the British,
Foreign Office and the State De-
partment have been constantly
telling Russia that she must CO.
operate, they did not even take
the trouble to let the Russians see
the Italian armistice terms.
Another thing which Jared
Russians was the fact that their
Ambassador to the exiled gov
ernments was kept i'm LONDON
for several months and refused
passport to 60 to North Africa
to confer with the French Com
mite for National Liberation.
The Russians figured that when
you are allies together, you don't
keep one ally, Russia, from talking