Show DEPARTMENT OF STATE Ten Key Men Direct Activities Of U.S. Department of State I. of on the department and IU personnel br Walter A. Western Newspaper Ian By WALTER A. SHEAD D. C If you know the top men in any organization whether it be a fraternal business bank or a government you can judge fairly well the type and I kind of personnel that go to make up that Particularly I is this true of top men in government who necessarily live in a glass house of Any person who has met and talked to Secretary of State Dean Acheson is impressed by his his his gence and his The son of I an Episcopalian he was born in 1 April He is a graduate of and Harvard with honorary degrees from Yale and He is a member of the law firm of Ache-son and Shorb in Washington and a member of many important He has a farm near Sandy where he lives and which is his If you have a pic-i ture in your mind of a highly polished never ill I at never at a loss for a who does not know the words or then you have a picture of Dean His next in command Is Under Secretary James E. a native of Granville North He is a former marine corps athletic and a He Is former director of the federal budget and was with the Sperry corporation before coming into government and is a recognized master at He is a law graduate of George Washington a member of many clubs and well known business Ambassador at Large Philip C. Jessup is a native New a graduate of Hamilton Yale and Columbia He served as lecturer on international law both at Columbia and Hamilton and as assistant to Elihu Root at the conference of jurists on the permanent court of international justice at Geneva in He has served his country in scores of international meetings and conferences and was named ambassador at large In for special assignments throughout the world in negotiations with other He is of Irish-English ancestry and his Judge William was a delegate to the Republican convention in 1860 and chairman of the committee which drafted the platform upon which Lincoln was a a JOHN E. deputy assistant secretary of state and in charge of personnel and administration of the entire has been In the department since 1938 serving in various He is a native of South and attended the U. S. Military Academy at West American and George Washington Prior to his entry into the department he was engaged in the insurance business for the Kansas City Joint Stock Land Bank and the American Surety company of New Willard L. a native of New was educated at the University of Michigan and He is assistant secretary in charge of economic He is an economic a former director of the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce in the department of commerce and a former partner of Dunn Edward W. Barrett as assistant secretary in charge of public affairs acts as sort of general manager and directs the office of international information and educational He was born in is a former newspaper reporter and radio man and was editorial director of Jack McFall was a navy commander during World War He is assistant secretary and has charge of congressional He spent fifteen years as clerk of the house appropriations Born in he lived in Colorado and Indiana and is a graduate of Georgetown and National George W. assistant secretary in charge of the bureau of European is a native of New an army a graduate of and was executive secretary to former postmaster Will H. He is a trustee of Princeton University and wears the Legin of Merit John Hickerson of Texas is an assistant secretary in charge of the bureau of United Nations His is a foreign service officer of 25 years a graduate of the University of Texas and a lecturer since 1928 on diplomacy and consular practice at the Georgetown University school of foreign George also of is director of the bureau of near south Asian and He is a formerly a Dallas He is a former naval air combat intelligence saw service at Iwo Jima and Guam with the bomber and has the legion of merit and three battle These are some of the top men in the state their background and the field of their |