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...first to arrive. France's Foreign Minister Georges Bidault and U.S. Senators Tom Connally and Arthur Vandenberg drew long, appraising looks. There were "ohs" and "ahs" for the Chinese, and for the Saudi Arabians in their green robes piped with white. There were a few cheers for Ernest Bevin, more for black-clad Eleanor Roosevelt...
Britain, in particular, was coming to the meeting in a determined mood. Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin long ago put on record his Government's intention to sacrifice a good deal, but not everything, for world collaboration. Britons did not hide their feeling that at Moscow U.S. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes had sacrificed too much for too little. The British are convinced that Russia is not the almighty, irresistible force which she makes herself...
When Jimmy Byrnes and Ernie Bevin left Moscow last week Big Three relations were back at the Potsdam stage of cooperation; the agreement on the peace treaties closely followed the Potsdam line. As usual, there had been a slight charge for alterations. At Potsdam, for example, America and Britain had in effect agreed that Russia could run the Baltic states. At Moscow, they added the Balkans...
...vital questions, Turkey and Iran, the three reached no understanding at all. Stalin was said to have told Byrnes and Bevin that Russia must have all of Turkey that ever belonged to the Tsars. Russia also wanted control of the Dardanelles. As for Azerbaijan, the Russians said that the Red revolt there was "spontaneous and normal," an Iranian matter not a subject for Big Three discussion...
...Byrnes was buoyant. Bevin was less buoyant; asked about the future he quoted the Gospel according to St. Matthew: "Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." Molotov said nothing at all, but Moscow papers applauded the communiqu...