The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-06-12
Grady Has Been Ambassador
70 Three OF The Worlds
Most Ticklish Situations
HAS A JOVIAL MANNER BUT A
PLENTY SHARP TONGUE ALSO

W lEdH5 f1enpy kTfauy. But now
Grady has earned the Presidents
eternal gratitude.
Grady has. proved that Pres
ident Truman is not the
only bigwig who knows how
10 make mistake with a letter
II was Grady who made the eel
ebrated faux pas, handing a letter
intended for the British to the
Iranians.
It's all been smoothed over.
now. 1t seems that nothing was
said in the letter which might
nave offended Iran anyway.
Grady is still the ambassador, and
. very ticklish situation has turn
ed out all right
In any case, our man Grady il
an old hand at ticklish situations.
In the last three years he has
been the American ambassador 10
three Of the worlds most ticklish
situations, India. Greece and now
Iran. Before tiat he was in In
dia while it was still British do
minion. And his diplomatic SER
vice actually extends back many
years. he is regarded in official
Washington as one of our most
vigorous fighters in the battle
against Communism.
Grady is big and hearty man
Of 60 years, with jovial man
ner but plenty sharp tongue
This has been used, on occasion,
60 cause cabinet shakeups in GER
tain ticklish situations, notably
Greece. Such is the influence of
an American ambassador these
days.
Henry Grady got into diplo-
macy by the college professor
route The other route is usually
big business, where man can
make enough money to live IN
the style to which ambassadors
are supposed To be accustomed.
Grady was born in 1892 in
San Francisco one Of seven chill
dren.
He soon became a fine scholar,
and took this up as a career. For
his college education, Grady
went to st. Mary's University in
Baltimore, and then on for grad
uate work at Catholic University
in Washington Even this wasn't
enough Grady took his econqm-
les and banking seriously, wound
up at Columbia in New York,
taking a PHD.
Since then he has been given a
doctor Of laws by the University
Of San Francisco, an honorary de-
gree,
But this was not all consecu-
tive, and Grady made his own
way in between. His first teach
ing job came when he was at Co
lumbia in 1916 and 1917. But he
left this to take his first govern
ment job during World War l.
The real foreign service career
began in 1919. when Grady be-
came the first United States trade
commissioner in London This ex-
banded into the work of acting
commercial attache in the embas-
sy and thus If you like, Grady's
diplomatic service began 80 years
ago. He's been around.
During the twenties, Grady
taught at the University of Cali
fornia and at Georgetown Uni
versity. He has always been a
low-tariff man. And what the Re-
publican administration didn't
want were scholarly experts who
favored low tariffs Grady stayed
away from Washington. He work
cd with large number of organ
izations interested in the expan-
sion Of world trade and improve
ment Of economic conditions in
general.
He went bacl. into government
work indirectly, in l933--the Re-
publieans had gone, but Grady's
work wasn't on tariffs. He be-
came impartial chairman of the
regional labor boaId in San Fran
cisco
Finally in 1894, Grady was call
ed back to Washington and told
to bring his low tariffs with him
He aided in working up the now
famous reciprocal trade program
which was one of the major eco.
nomic developments of the new
deal.
This is not, strictly speaking
diplomacy, but it certainly invoi-
yes foreign affairs. In any case
Grady was appointed assistant
secretary of state in charge oi
economic and trade affairs in 10
80. And the government regard
ed him. and still does. as one OF
the leading experts in that field
Grady is one of the worlds lead
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