THE CABINET: Washington, Washington, & Washington

A bespectacled young diplomat by the name of Samuel Walter Washington from West Virginia watched with concern the Brazilian revolution swirl about his head.

At the U. S. Embassy in Rio de Janeiro his chief. Ambassador Edwin Vernon Morgan, an oldster with 18 years' service in Brazil, was away from his post having fun on a Paris vacation. Secretary Washington, 29, Rhodes Scholar, was in charge. Only four years in the U. S. foreign service, he had been in Rio less than a twelvemonth. He did his conscientious best to keep the State Department in Washington posted on the ebb...

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