STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS

Southland Times, Issue 25539, 6 December 1944, Page 5

STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS

New Appointments Made WASHINGTON. December 4. Mr Roosevelt has nominated Mr Joseph C. Grew, formerly ambassador to Tokyo, as Under-Secretary of State. Mr Roosevelt accepted with regret the resignations of the assistant secretaries, Messrs Adolf Berle, Breckinridge Long and G. Howland Shaw, and appointed as their successors Messrs William L. Clayton, Archibald MacLeish and Nelson Rockefeller. Mr Roosevelt’s statement said: “Mr Berle remains head of the American delegation to the Civil Aviation Conference, the proceedings of which he has conducted with his usual ability. Mr Dean Acheson continues, as assistant secretary, to have general responsibility for all matters concerning his department’s relations with Congress and will assume important duties with the international conferences. “Mr Clayton will have charge of foreign economic affairs. He will report at the request of Mr Edward R. Stettinius, the Secretary of State, directly to me on matters pertaining to civil aviation after the completion of the Chicago Conference. “Mr Rockefeller will have charge of relations with the American Republics and Mr MacLeish will have charge of public and cultural relations.” Mr Roosevelt added: “There will be other appointments strengthening the State Department in the near future.”