The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-15

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 It occurred aS that turning point in the life of the nation, when having progressed far from the unceremonial days of Andrew JackSon'S muddy-booted, farmer worker inaugurals, we began to understand the European niceties of who should sit where at din- ner. And having grown up as a nation. we appointed James Cle- ment Dunn as chief ceremonial officer of the White House.
 He was a full-fledger State De- partment career officer, given the weighty job of arranging White House place cards and making sure that the gold braided naval aides lined up the vice president and the chief justices wife &C., cording to strict protocol.
 Jimmy Dunn's duties at first were not too exacting. Then sud- denly the spotlight of the nation focused upon him, as lady from Kansas, the half-sister of Vice. President Charlie Curtis, pro- claimed to the world that it was her right and privilege to come in to dinner ahead of the wife of the speaker. Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth.
 That made Jimmy Dunn fa- nous. Actually, he adroitly side stepped the issue, dumping it in the jap of Chilean Ambassador Carlos Davila. But from that day, on, his job was made. Before, some people had turned up their nose at the idea of a full-time, full- fledged career diplomat paid by the taxpayers to rule on proto- col. But from that point on, Jim- my, a charming and delightful person. became fixture in Wash ington's diplomatic-social whirl. CORDELL HULL'S
 CLOSEST FRIEND
 In fact, Jimmy Dunn's State Department Bureau of Interna- tiopal conferences and protocol was enlarged and became quite an institution. He used 1t as 3 springboard to attend conferences all over the world. So when Cor dell Hull came into office, q sims pie senator from Tennessee, un- used to the folderol and trappings of diplomacy, 1t was natural for Jimmy Dunn to go with him to the famous London economic con- ference,
 There, Hull had trouble with
 his old enemy, Professor Ray
 mOnd M0ley, Also Hull did not
 know the minute details of how R
 conference should operate, but
 Jimmy Dunn did, And Jimmy,
 in that brief trip 10 London, be-
 eaHle the neWrf0und friend,
 eventually the closest confident
 of COFdeH Hull,
 Next to his marriage to gracious and ambitious Mary Armour, heiress to the Armour millions, this was the Wkest move Jimmy ever male,
 After the London Conference, Jimmy accompanied Hull to the PanrAmeTlcan conference at MonE teYldeo, this time taking hs wife, On the long voyage, she and Mrs, Hull got aeauaiHted, Since then scarcely a day has passed during the l2 years Hull remained seev retary of state that Mrs, Dunn and Mrs, Hull have not visited together, Nor has there been 2 day when the weather and MTs, HulPs health were good That he has not played his faV0Flte game, oFpquet, with Jimmy Dunn,
 Naturally MT, Hull soon pro- noted Jimmy out of hls routine niche in charge of protocol and conferences, placing him in charge of Yitally lmportant EAFapeaH afF fairs, AS V9ung man, Jimmy neYeP got though college, Rpt he became HHll,s Np9lltleal sd' visor for ElpQperp
 FRQM KANSAS 70
 WHITE STATS
 HaYlpg risen 70 thls Key p9slg tlen, Jimmy reached out and put hls frleHd, Julius Holmes, now 2 brigadleF general lnl9 DIS old protocol job, Possibly this was because Jllils came from kanSas and Jimmy feared an9lher YlpeE presidents slstep FrQm kansaR would pFeelpltate 2 new Dolly Sam WaFr
 country 2 deEen 0F more thought fnl men and W9men were plannlpl