A POST GOES BEGGING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74-00297R000200630005-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 22, 2013
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: June 16, 1961
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2013/10/25: CIA-RDP74-00297R000200630005-9
NEW YORK TIMES
JUN 1 6 1961
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Moult S. Ocsts, Publisher IS96-1935
rvatiSHICO XVCRY DAY iii YIN YEAR BY nu rni?x YORX Tams COIOANy
ARTHUR HAYS SULRIZIKER
Chairman of the Board
Oavit, E. Day roos
President enei Publisher
Amen? H. BRADFORD, Vice President- HARDING F. BANCROFT, Secretary
FRANCIS A. COX, Trdisatrer
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A Post Goes Begging
The President's difficulty in finding anyone i
willing and able to take the extremely important !
post of Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-
American Affairs would be ridiculous if it were
not so serious.
Moreover, twice the name of a candidate who
had actually been selected has become known,
only to have him reject the job when the chips
were down. This has happened in the case of
Ellsworth Bunker. able ex-Ambassador to Ar-
gentina, Italy and India, and now of Carl Spaeth,
dean of the Stanford University Law School.
It would seem elementary to find out first from
the man chosen whether he would take the post .
or not. '
It is believed that about twenty candidates
in all have been awroached or considered in the
past four months.
Of the probable Masons for their refusal, the
main one is the ditaiersion of authority in the
fiehl of Latin-Amertean affairs. The State De-
Pertinent's Inter-Aatilricas Bureau has been
pts:d into the back/Hound by the White House .
force," .headed hy Adolf Berle, the SWO
White House aides, likktrd Goodwin and Arthur
4chleeinger Jr., and?in some cases like Calm
il--by the C. I. A. iati a result the State Dewitt
-
Ment staff has bete** demoralhied.
How can Presidealt Kennedy expect anyone of ,
importance to assume a post in puch conditions? i
At best it will be pai of the most difficult and. ,
thankless jobs in0 Government.
i
This problem si id have been settled a long
time ago. Now t,t. `41rir White Howe has been
made to look silly \awice in recent wicks by
choosing candidates, *hose names have become
public, without get t$$ their prior consent, per-
haps the end of t . tedy of errors is in sight.
Mr. Kennedy will / n the right man when
he offers hirn a ?V' it authority with a clear
line of comn.: A White Howe through ,+
"?the Secrete. -; et
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2013/10/25: CIA-RDP74-00297R000200630005-9
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