RESIGNATION EXPECTED

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28821, 16 February 1959, Page 11

RESIGNATION EXPECTED

Speculation On Successor

(Rec. 9.30 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.

Washington—and the rest of the world —speculated today on two main questions as a result of the revelation of Mr Dulles’s recurrence of cancer. They were: Who would succeed him as Secretary of State? What effect would his removal have on the policies of the United States?

To most observers it seemed that 70-year-old Mr Dulles would be unable to resume full duties in the light of the knowledge that he had cancer. But the White House said President Eisenhower had no plans at present for appointing a successor to the veteran statesman. The names of two men feature in most discussions on a probable successor to Mr Dulles. They are -the Under-Secretary of State, Mr Christian Herter. and the third-ranking member of the State Department, Mr Douglas Dillon, who is at present Undersecretary of State for Economic Affairs.

Other persons mentioned—although not as strongly—include General Alfred Gruenther, the President of the American Red Cross and a personal friend of President Eisenhower; the former Governor of New York, Mr Thomas Dewey, the United States chief delegate to the United Nations, Mr Henry Cabot Lodge, and the banker, Mr John McCloy. a former United States High Comriiissioner to Germany.