A Doctor for India

A minor upheaval in the Foreign Service--the result of George Marshall's determination to weed out the aged, the sick and the weary--sent half a dozen more State Department careerists careering off to new ambassadorial posts last week. The most noteworthy appointment was the Ambassador to the new embassy in the chrysaloid nation of India: 65-year-old Henry F. Grady of San Francisco, rotund president of the American President Lines.

Grady is no newcomer to Government service. A native San Franciscan, he started out as an educator and gravitated between lecture room and trade commissions. He helped write the reciprocal trade program and served as Assistant Secretary of State under Cordell Hull.

Grady was plucked from State to head the gigantic President Lines. Along San Francisco's waterfront he managed to avoid the enmity of Harry Bridges--no mean job. In Nob Hill's staid Pacific Union Club, he managed to get along with fellow members despite his known New Dealism and liberal views.

State borrowed him to serve on the Allied mission which observed the 1946 Greek elections. Now State was finding use for him again.

India is not new to him. He was there in 1942 on a technical mission to drum up India's war production. Grady's views, which poverty-stricken India would find worth studying: "With a population of 400 million people India can raise the standard of living of her people only through production, particularly industrial production." Grady, called "Doctor" by some who remember his educator days, is earnestly certain that the greatest service U.S. industry can render world peace is to supply the technical knowledge which will help cure the world's economic ills.

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