Changing Cast

In the smoke and skirmishing of the Army-McCarthy hassle last year, burly, bellicose H. (for Herman) Struve Hensel was one of the angriest men on the Pentagon side. Joe McCarthy correctly accused Hensel of "masterminding" the Army's case against McCarthy, falsely charged him with milking the Navy of $56,526.64 from ship-supply contracts during World War II. After the Senate Investigations Subcommittee dismissed the charges against Hensel, McCarthy obliquely admitted that they were false.

Last week President Eisenhower regretfully accepted Hensel's resignation as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs. After 15 years, off and on, in Government service, able Lawyer Hensel plans to return to his private practice, because he no longer has "sufficient individual capital resources" to continue his public service. His departure leaves just two fading stars of the Army-McCarthy hearings (McCarthy and Army Secretary Robert Stevens) still in the Government.

Other official arrivals and departures of the week:

P:Richard A. Mack, 45, to be a member of the Federal Communications Commission, succeeding hardbitten, brass-voiced Frieda Hennock, 50. Lawyer Hennock, a breezy, New Dealing Democrat (but no darling of the party's congressional rank and file), was the first woman to serve on the FCC, was often a center of controversy in her seven years in office. Floridian Mack, a Democrat of calmer persuasion, is former chairman of the Florida Railroad and Public Utilities Commission, a current vice president of the National Association of Railroad and Utilities Commissioners, and an experienced practitioner before the FCC.

P:Julius Cecil Holmes, 56, longtime career diplomat and wartime aide to General Dwight Eisenhower, to be U.S. diplomatic agent at Tangier, with the rank of minister. Originally (TIME, Feb. 21), Holmes was scheduled to become Ambassador to Iran, but the nomination was withdrawn because 1) some opposition developed in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and 2) a physical examination disclosed that he had ulcers. Tangier,--unlike Teheran, does not require Senate confirmation, will be less taxing physically for Diplomat Holmes.

P:Selden Chapin, 55, to be Ambassador to Iran. Careerman Chapin, a wealthy, dewlapped sportsman (golf, sailing) and an Annapolis graduate, has knocked around the world for 30 years in the Foreign Service. In 1949, as U.S. Minister to Communist Hungary, he was accused of conspiring with Cardinal Mindszenty, declared non grata and thrown out of the country (Chapin dismissed the charges as "pure fantasy").

P:Richard Lee Jones, 61, to be Ambassador to Liberia. A onetime banker and a business and advertising manager of the Chicago Defender, Jones was for 26 years an executive in Chicago's South Center Department Store. Last year he accepted an appointment as director of the Foreign Operations Administration mission in Liberia. A veteran of both World Wars, Georgia-born Jones became one of the highest ranking Negro Army officers (brigadier general) in World War II.

* John Carter Vincent was the last Foreign Service man to be diplomatically diverted to Tangier (TIME, March 12, 1951) in the face of senatorial pyrotechnics.

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