At Washington's airport Secretary of State Edward Stettinius, arriving, and Under Secretary Joseph C. Grew, welcoming him, beamed and embraced each other in almost Latin style. They felt they could congratulate themselves on the outcome of the Mexico Conference on War & Peace.
Pay-Off. When the Conference made its last formal bows and speeches, Stettinius, bubbling with confidence, had challenged reporters to find any serious failure in his first public international conference.
Both Stettinius and Nelson Rockefeller, with Mexico's Ezequiel Padilla and a small army of experts like Adolf Berle, Avra Warren, Oscar Cox, Leo Pasvolsky and Senator Warren Austin, won...
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