Foreign News: Dramatis Personae

The subordinate personnel of Cordell Hull's delegation was still secret early this week. In Washington, his principal advisers on Russian and Mid-Eastern affairs are relatively unknown, hardworking, well-informed, humanly prejudiced.

Hull's personal adviser is also his croquet partner, James Clement Dunn. Dapper, slick-haired, 53-year-old "Jimmy" Dunn married into the Armour packing family, gives lavish receptions, likes European nobility, wears the right clothes. In the past he supported the Franco regime, backed Marshal Henri Pétain helped Vichyite Marcel Peyrouton. On his record, he has been anti-Soviet.

The Department's expert on Russia is bright and young Charles L. ("Chick") Bohlen. Tall, fair, long-faced, Bohlen descends from Prussia's aristocratic Bohlens. is related to the head of Germany's vast Krupp arms works. Bohlen speaks fluent Russian, is for Russians as Russians, on his record is against the Soviet Government as such.

Chick Bohlen's assistant on Russian affairs is dark-haired, handsome G. Frederick Reinhardt, who served in Moscow in 1941. Once known as the ranking "lady killer" of Vienna's salons, he has now settled to hard and conscientious work. Reinhardt knows Russia well, speaks fluent Russian, more than matches Bohlen's dislike for the Soviet Union.

Cavendish Welles Cannon is the State Department's middle-aged and ailing Balkan expert. Hardworking, tired-eyed Mr. Cannon knows Hungary, Bulgaria and Greece intimately, has only a secondhand knowledge of the pro-Russian Czechs and the Yugoslavs.