Evening star., 1944-12-05
Senate Battle
On Some State
Changes Seen
Grew Unanimously
lndorsed; Two
Face Opposition

wv SPPOSItIVu
In separate votes which pre-
saged Senate floor fight on one
Or more of the appointments, the
Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee today approved four State
Department nominations as Sec
retary of State Stettinius an
he is planning a COM
olete reorganization of the State
Department.
The Senate committee unanimous
ly approved the nomination of Jo-
seph c. Grew. former Ambassador to
Japan, to be Undersecretary of State,
but Senator Clark, Democrat, Of
Missouri reported that some mem
bers reserved the right to oppose
other nominations on the Senate
floor.
Senator Clark reported that four
members voted against the nomina-
tlon OF Archibald MacLeish, head OF
the Library of Congress, who was
named as an Assistant Secretary.
Senator Clark said he would oppose
confirmation of Mr.. MacLeish on the
floor.
Murray Opposes Clayton.
The Missourian added that Sen
ator Murray, Democrat, of Montana
voted against viii L. Clayton, re-
tiring surplus property director, who
also was named as an Assistant Sec
retary.
Apparently there was no out
spoken opposition to the fourth
nominee, Nelson A. Rockefeller, also
named an Assistant Secretary.
Senator White of Maine, Repub-
lican leader, said the committee ap-
proved, with minor changes, a bill
which would provide for two more
Assistant Secretaries in the depart
ment. The House previously had
passed the measure.
Secretary Stettinius, in his first
press conference since succeeding
Cordell Hull, announced that a COM
plete reorganization of the depart
ment will be made. public next week.
1t is expected that the reorganiza-
ton will be thoroughgoing and af-
feet the duties of officials from top
to bottom of the establishment.
Pending announcement of the plan,
Mr.. Stettinius declined to answer
questions about its details.
Follows Much Criticism.
He promised, however, that he
would have the blueprint ready next
week and then go over it in detail
with reporters.
/ The reorganization follows many
months of criticism by organizations
interested in foreign affairs and
some newspapers which maintained
that the department, as now Or
ganized, was inadequate in its ma
chinery to handle the vast number
Of complex postwar problems which
will confront it.
At the same time, Mr. Stettinius
made public letters he had written
to former Assistant Secretaries Adolf
A. Berle, jr.; G. Howland Shaw and
Breckinridge Long. He expressed
pleasure over their association and
his regret that it was being ended.
1t was to make way for the new
appointments that the President
accepted the resignation of the three
Assistant Secretaries.
The Chief Executive is expected
to appoint two new assistant secre-
taries as soon as Congress completes
the enabling legislation. The new
posts, it is understood, will be filled
by James Clement Dunn, now polit-
ical adviser on European affairs to
the Secretary, and Maj. Gen. Julian
C. Holmes, now civil affairs chief on
the staff of Gen. Dwight D. Eisen-
hover.
Acheson Remains.
Sole remaining member Of Mr..
Hulls staff of assistant secretaries
is Dean Acheson, who will abandon
his present work in the economic
field to Mr.. Clayton. His future
role will be that of a contact man
with Congress and the organization
of international conferences.
The sweeping reorganization Of
the State Department, it is under
stood, is designed to shape up a
"streamlined" agency to deal with
the coming problems of peace and.
in postwar days, to take over some
of the functions now carried out by
independent agencies.
In short, future plans look toward
combining all foreign relations OF
the United States-political, eco
nomic and cultural-under this
State Department rather than hav-
ing them scattered among a num-
ber of agencies. The project Is
designed to eliminate duplication OF
effort and misunderstanding which
sometimes have resulted in various
agencies of the Government work.
ing at cross-purposes.
Grew Sole Career Man.
Significantly. under the reorgani-
zation as carried out so far, Mr..
Grew is rhe only member of this
high command who is a profess
sional diplomat. That post tradi-
tionally has gone to a career man,
although Mr.. Stettinius and the late
Joseph p Cotton. who served under
Secretary Of State Stimson, were
exceptions
Mr. Grew, primarily an expert on
the Far East, is expected to devote.
a large part of his time to that
field. The Associated Press reported
from Chungking that the Chinese
government welcomed his appoint
(See STATE DEPARTMENT, A-40
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