The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-17

the standouts:
 United States
 Edward Reilly Stettinius, Jr., A. year-old Secretary of State, chief of the U. s. delegation and prob- able conference chairman. His story has been told time and again since he aScenced to the top Cab- inet post last December-a student leader at the University of Virgil mia, head of L. s. Steel at 37, and then a whirlwind crack at public service which made him U. s. Lend-Lease Administrator, under secretary or State and Secretary in three years. A youthful and vigor- ous product of wealth, he possesses an amazing capacity for liking peo- ple and getting them to work for him.
 Corden 11ull, 73-year-old elder Statesman, whose poor health may keep him away from San Fran cisco. Hull, who has been called ethe father of the United Nations" was slated to be senior adviser to .6tettinlus, the man whom he Sug- gested to succeed him as secretary of state. An intimate of Senators who can make or break the Ad- ministration's world collaboration plans, Hull also is influential among the foreign delegates with whom he oealt during 12 years as secretary.
 Sen. Tom Connally, veteran Tex as Democrat who heads the im- portant Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Dubbed "the Senator who looks most like a Senator" this 67-year -old blocking back for Administration foreign policy drop ped his country law business 25 years ago to enter Congress. Ma tive of Marlin, Tex, he has worked for world organization plans on Capitol Hill and maintained intim- ate contact with the State Depart ment and White House.
 Sen. Arthur Hendrick Vanden- berg of Grand Rapids, Mich., iead- ing Republican spokesman on the Foreign Relations Committee. Born S1 years ago, the son of a Dutch harness maker, he helped support his family as ;- newsboy at the age of nine. Then he became a re- porter and eventually editor and publisher of the Grand Rapids Herald. During his r years in the Senate, Vandenberg has typlfied his party's trend from rock-ribbed isolationism to support of world or IAl 1vA
 Rep. Sol Bloom of New York, one-time flower vendor who be- came chairman of the House For eign Affairs Committee. A 75-year -oLN veteran who looks younger, he entered the House 20 years ago on Tammany coattailS. Bloom once sold violets at corner in San Francisco, where he returns as one of the two House members on the U. s. delegation. Bloom never went to school, figures ,.e got his education as a salesman, snowman and gag man for the once-popular dancer, Little Egypt" He wants tho Senate to share with the House its exclusive right to approve or reject treaties. >nss s4aa. -=sf
 Dean Virginia Gildersleeve of Barnard College. the only woman on the Americas delegation. At 67 Miss Gildersleeve is rounding out her 30th year as Barnard dean. She studied there at the turn of the century and by her 18th birthday had become an assistant in English. Eight year. later she became dean. Since 1918, when she made a speech on "The Relationship of Nations" she has held a lance for collective security and mutual understand ing" among nations.
 Co1nd. Harold E. Stassen, youth ful ex-Governor of Minnesota and the Midwest's outstanding inter nationalist. Born 38 years ago in St. Paul, Stassen reelected to poli- tical prominece a few years after beginning law practice in 1929. He was elected Goveror in 1889 = the youngest in the states history-and won two more terms after that leaving the State House in 1943 to don a Navy uniform. Stassen was mentioned as Presidential timber in the last campaign and may be 8 Republican strong man in 1948.
 Great Britain
 Anthony Eden, Britain's 49-year- old Foreign Secretary. His career diplomats background contrasts sharply with the big business career of Stettinius. Eden served his first stint as foreign minister at the age of 38, resigning in 1888 in 1888 in protest against Neville Chamberlain's appeasement policy. He returned to the government un- der Winston Churchill in 1899, re- suming the foreign minister's dut- ieS . year later.
 Clement Atlee, Deputy British Prime Minister. Atlee, 62, is top representative of the Labor Party in Churchills wartime coalition government. His long career in La hor party politics and in govern ment made him opposition leader in Parliament for five years before the war.
 Russia
 Andrei A. Gromyko, taciturn chess playing Russian Ambassador to Washington. He was picked sur prisingly as the Soviets' chief dele- gate to a barley at which the other United Nations, including the big powers, are sending their foreign ministers. Gromyko came to the United States in 1889, when he was only S1, as counselor of the Rus sian Embassy. He became ambas- sador in 1943. Known to news men as the least stalkative mem / Der of the Capital diplomatic crops, he moves cautiously and de- liberately. Before entering the So- viet foreign service he studied at the Moscow Institute of Economies and lectured at the Soviet Acad- eny of Science.
 China
 T. V. Soong, Harvard-educated