FOREIGN N EWS,INTERNATIONAL: Man of Good Will

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Under Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius Jr. was seeing everybody. To Prime Minister Winston Churchill he took a fine acorn-fed Virginia ham with the fat all on it, sat and talked late in the P.M.'s bedroom. Next day he settled to long, earnest talks with Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden. He lunched with the Bank of England's new Governor, Lord Catto (TIME, April 17), Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Anderson, saw Imperial Chemical's Lord McGowan, Production Minister Oliver Lyttelton. He also had an audience with King George VI.

Big Ed, on his first big-time diplomatic mission, felt that he...

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