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y 1 d , , THE EVENING STAR Washington, D.C. November 11, 1960 <S; rge Aikn of USI oke Industrial POSt , George V. Allen; director of Ttie USIA surveys which the United States Information, showed that United States Agency, today became the first I prestige had' declined In Europe g ranking administration official'I became a heated Issue in the to resign in the wake of the Democratic election victory. Mr. Allen, whose agency was caught in a cross-fire over the ,campaign Issue of releasing confidential reports on Ameri- can prestige abroad, will leave his post December 1 to take over as president of the To- bacco Institute, Inc. The announcement w a s made by White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty in Augusta, where President Eisenhower is vacationing. Ab- bott bott Washburn, deputy di- rector of USIA. is expected to closing days of the presidential campaign. Both the overseas Information agency and the White House refused to make them public, though their con- tents were widely leaked to the press. Senator Kennedy made the USIA a principal target of his campaigni charging that the administration had often trailed' the Russians in the propa-- ganda field and had failed to tell the American story in Cuba and Latin America. In his new post Mr. Allen will succeed former Representative serve as director for the final~James P. Richards, Democrat' weeks of the Eisenhower ad- of South Carolina, one-time ministration. chairman of the House Foreign In accepting his resignation, Affairs Committee. - Mr. Eisenhower said: "I want I~~While it was a difficult de- to assure you of my apprecia- Icision to leave the Government, tion of the efiort you have de- ,which I have served for 30 voted to bringing the vitaL work 'years," Mr. Allen said in a of the agency to the highest Istatement, "the prospect' of "' Irepresenting America's oldest possible eSectiveness . Mr. Allen, a veteran of the Foreign Service before his ap- ointment by Mr. Eisenhower 1p ;. as head of the USIA in 1957, : had served both the Roosevelt end Truman administrations in important diplomatic posts. , r GEORGE V. ALLEN ALLEN Continued From First Page industry, and one of its largest, is most interesting and chal- lenging." Mr. Allen, who holds the rank of career ambassador, entered the Foreign Service in~ 1930. His first ambassadorial post was • to Iran in 1946, and he subsequently served'as Ambas- aador to India and Nepall Yu- and Greeee oslavia g . See ALLEN, Page A-21 was Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs and di- rected the Office of Interna- tional Information, predecessor of the USIA. He became chief of the USIA on October 16, 1957. Mr. Allen also served as chairman of the United States delegation to the UNESCO con- ferences in Beirut and Paris in 1948 and 1949; participated in the major int'ernationaliconfer- ences at Moscow, Cairo and Potsdam, and the United Na- tions Conference at'San Fran- cisco in 1945. Under President Truman, he k K1..Sx ~t lti YS n c .t T!^; i. 4? 1 i ,