BOWIE QUITS POST AS AIDE TO DULLES

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• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 20, 2014
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• Publication Date: May 17, 1957
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BOW1g QUITS POST
AS AIDE TO DULLES
Policy Planner's Resignation
I Virtually Completes Wide
I Shake-Up of Assistants,
By RUSSELL BARER
4 SOtelii to The New York TIMIS.
WASHINGTON, May 16?A The explanation commonlyi
major reorganization of the heard Is that Me. Dulles relies
State Department's high ! cern- little an advisers but prefers to mend was virtually completilhe Ilk own chief policy planner.
today with the resignation o first board chairman was r:
Robert R. Bowie as ASsistan
Secretary for Policy Planning.
Of fifteen positions comprisin
the department's first echelon
only three are still filled by th
same men who were on the
."first team" of Jain Foste
Dulles, Secretary of State, dur-
ing the first Eisenhower term.
These are Robert Murphy
'Deputy Under Secretary fo
Political Affairs; Loy Hender
son, Deputy Under Secretary fo,
George P. ICennan and the sec- ;
ond. Mr. Bowie's predecessor,
Paul H, Mize. Both men have'
left left Government service.
The administrative reo
Mien of the department ha.,
been under way sine. the Presl-
dent began his second term.
Following is the line-up of new
personalities:
? Chriatlare A. Herter has re-
placed Herbert Hoover Jr. as
Wider Secretary of State, Mr.
ttulleS
Administration, and Walter chief IleuterianL
C. Douglas Dillon, fnemerly
Robertson, Assistant Secret
for Far Emtern Affairs.
Mr. Bowie, whO plans to re
turn to his position as a profes
.or at the Harvard Law School
Is the twelfth major figure
move out since the shake-up b
tan.
No successor has been named
but there was somo speculati
that he mig1.1. he Robert McClin
tack, who now serve, as a mem
ber of the policy planning board
Lacy Declines Post
The big shake-up of the am-
bassadorial corps, which has
been going on stmultantosisly
with the administrative reor-
ganisation in the department, is
also nearing its end.
William S. B. Lacy, who was
originally scheduled to become
Ambassador to Poland, has de-
clieed the post for health rea-
sons. He passed up an opportu-
nity to become Ambassador to
Luxemburg and elected to stay
n Washington as a special as-
sistant to Mr. Dulles.
The Secretary plane instead
to fill the Warsaw -post with
.Jacob D. Beam, now Deputy As-
sistent Secretary for European
Affairs. H. Freeman Matthews,
who has just finished a tour as
Ambassador in the Hague, will
hecome Ambassador to Austria.
Mr. Bov.le, who was chief of
policy planning' throughout the
eiret Eisenhower term, also sits
on the Naticrial Security Council
Planning Board.
The policy planning staff was
created after World War IL It
was conceived as an organ that:
would stand apart from the day.
today tactics of foreign policy
,execution and map long-range
policy,
Alder Influence Deana
competent observer' here be-
lieve that a has sever succeeded;
in functioning with the complete
detachment neceseary for its
oruginnl mission. During Mr.
.s._ ?-? _
?Anthitalador to France, has re-
plied Herbert V. Prochnow as
Deputy Under Secretary for
non Jo Affairs.
George F, Reinhardt has re-
placed Douglas MacArthur 3d as
department counselor.
Herman Phleger has resigned
as department legal advisor. Nol
Successor has been appointee
but ?teftus.fteeker, a Washing-,
Meetteted Prest
Robert R. Bowie
ton lawyer and formerly deputy
director of the Central intelli-
gence Agency, is reported in line
for the job.
Hugh S. Cumming Jr., former
Ambassador to Indonesia,?has
been appointed to succeed
W. Park Armstrong as special
assitant for intelligence
Andrew Berding, ?career
officer from the United Statesi
Information Agency, has re-
placed Carl W. McCardle
Assistant Secretary for Public
A ffeirs.
Robert C. Hill, Assistant Seed
? etai y for Congressional Rela-I
:eons, hes been appointed Am-i
,bassader to Mexico. His !Armee-,
5or is r ) pected to be William B.
4Macortter Jr., now a special as-
isistan. ri kir. Dunes.
Roy I: Rubottorn is the new.
Assiseee Secretary for Latin.
A merc Alfa irs, succeeding
Henri .4'. Holland.
I C Su rse Elbrick has been ap-
point?1 srsletant Secretary for
Europerti Affairs., .sticeeedinc
Livingste T. Merchant,
George V. Allen, ?wise was
transferor.' in Greece from his:
posit in, )1% 4,MttiSt lint Secretary
for wet,- Yetetern Affairs, has
been e.sed by William lit
Rour
Ftl : t Ml. ( ft, who was in
Cha,f ). of se, lit ty and consular:
aft.' ? 4, has bee '-jade Ambassa-
dor. t Dublin lee successor will
dere. 1' near, Dtirety
A' :Ai ti4 for congres-
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