The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 12, 1951, Page 7

Page 6 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Grady Has Been Ambassador To Three Of The World's Most Tieklish Situations vr HAS A JOVIAL MANNER BUT A sini poor are PLENTY SHARP TONG ‘ ! WASHINGTON.-~ (. —Presi-@. dent Truman has al respect- ed and admired his dor t an, Henry Grady. But’ now, Gre has earned the President's eternal titude. Grady has, proved that Pres. ident Truman is not the enly bigwig who knows how » make a mistake with a letter It was € irady who made the cel- cbrated faux pas, handi intended for the British to the Iranians, It’s all been smoothed over, | now. It seems that nothing was s the letter which might ffended Iran anyway.| Grady is still the ambassador, and # very ticklish situation hag turn-| ed out all right. In any case, our man Grady is an old hand at ticklish situations, In the last three years he has! been the American ambassador to three of the world’s most ticklich| ituations, India, Greece and now Iran. Before that ke was in Th- vhile it was still a British do- And his diplomatic ser- vice actually extends back many years. He is regarced in official Washington as one of our most vigorous fighters in the. battle against Communisni udy is a big and hearty man of 69 years, with a jovial man- ner but a plenty sharp tongue. ‘This has been used, on occasion, eause cabinet shakeups in cer. tain ticklish situations, notably Greece. Such is the influence of an American ambassador these day minion Henry Grady got into diplo- macy by the college professor! route, The other route is usually big business, where a man can make enough money to live in the style to which ambassadors are supposed ta be accustomed. Grady -was born in 1892. in ) Francisco one of seven. chil- dren He soon became a fine scholar, and took this up as a career. For. hi college education, Grady went to St. Mary’s University in timore, and then on for grad-} uate work at Catholic University | in Washington. Even. this. wasn’t! enough. Grady took his econom- ics and banking seriously, wound up at Columbia in New York, taking a PHD. Since then he has been given a doctor of laws by the University of San Francisco, an honorary de- gree But, this was not all consecu- tive, and Grady made. his own way fn between. His first teach- ing job came when he was at Co- lumbia in 1916 and 1917. But he left this to take his first govern- ment job during World War I. The real foreign service career began in 1919, when Grady be- came the first United States trade commissioner in London, This ex- panded into the work of acting commercial attache in the embas- y and thus if you like, Grady'’s diplomatic service began 30 years ago. He’s been around. During the twenties, Grady taught at the University of Cali- fornia and at Georgetown Uni- versity. He has alWays been a jow-tariff man, And what the Re- publican administration didn’t vant were scholarly experts who favored low tariffs.,Grady. stayed away from Washington.-He work- ed with a large number of organ- izations interested in the expan- sion of world trade and improve- ment of ecénomie conditions in al He went b: into government work indirectly, in 1933—the Re- publicans had gone, but Grady work wasn't on tariffs. He be- came impartial chairman of the regional labor board in Saa Fran-| cisco, Finally in 1934, Grady was call- ed back to Washington and told to bring his low tariffs with him He aided in working up the now famous reciproeal trade program which was one of the major eco- nomic developments of the new deal This is not, strictly speaking, diplomacy, but it certainly invol- ves foreign affairs. In any case Grady was appointed assis secretary of state in cha economic and trade affairs 9. And the government regard- ed him, and still does, as one of, the leading experts in that, field. Grady is one of the world’s lead- MM Key West Citizen NEWS and EDITORIAL TELEPHONE 1935 BUSINESS - ADVERTISING TELEPHONE gen Tuesday, June 12, 1951) #9 1. Ns 29 Tow, vi < . Tussday, dune 14 185!) teresting Notes | ew Honors Country Doctor sulphur in the} 2 3 ‘ 3 < in the form of . Beer aee Largest use of United States i ulphurie acid The U.S. .A the oldes undies in India and used JE ALSO whisks. 0 yaaa William S) are died April News Notes igned Eastern Ecuador is undevelo At the t of the American ed and stretches into the 2 nost United States ! zon jungles. wheat was gro : Wewniont Cashmere scarf e introduc Wheat about one fed to Europe at the start of the fourt aS iat state 16th Century. f about i h of the ar Ninety percent of U. S. sulphur 5‘ ; and half the world supply come Tt ere ee from deposits in Louisiana and MRA MARIN 6” See a ‘Tex modern hybrid instrument In 1900 the United States had! sir eed applied to a conical 13,500,000 people more than 45! b. tube < ? years old; today there are 42,500, —- " pet 000. Rie esinl aspera 4: the| © es —— sarwhal P) Wirey U.S! Secretary of Agriculture; ten feet Fe DR. GEORGE M. FLOYD and his wife are honored at a public Brannan gays the average farmer! fashioned int ; : party in Hawthorne, Fla., for his 42 years as a general physician gets about 69 cents an hour for! hunting these his labor plus. five percent in terest on his investment with no| . Ancient leg allowance for payment of the Sucker or nig farmer managing his farm the birds sucked the she gi at night and that the) — — ais goats thereafter in the community. Along with other medical services given to . the people,of,the section, Dr..Floyd has delivered about },500 babies. nds about the goat tjar declar ing exponents of the principles of PUD EAP low-tariff, reciprocal trade poli cy But the variety didin’t end), there. Grady quit in 1941 to be come president of the American President Lines, a big shipping company. He served on sever: government missions during the war. And he was in charge of the economic section of the allied commission in Italy for several months, He served in Greece as supe! THE ARTMAN PRESS visor of the elections there in 1 46. And then in 1947, went to In- PRINTING dia as out first ambassador.} The Citizen Building Grady went back to Greece PH ambassador a year later. And just Key West, Florida came blind t for the last | Telephone ation of ’ the world has increased abbut five 51 per thousand people each year on the average; but since 1900 the average has been about eight per thousand. 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