Word: byrneses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That was that, but the change was not to be announced for some days. In Nanking General Marshall had broken the news to Chiang (see FOREIGN NEWS). But only a very few in Washington had known that Jimmy Byrnes would quit; most assumed that he would go to Moscow in...
That night, at a glittering White House diplomatic reception, Jimmy Byrnes could savor freedom, a dramatic moment, and heartfelt expressions of regret. He beamed and said: "There are two happy days in the life of a man in public office-the day he is elected and the day he steps...
It was also a great week for eulogies of all kinds. Michigan's Republican Senator Arthur Vandenberg sonorously praised the "relentless fidelity and constant success" of Texas' white-maned Tom Connally, his predecessor as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. Republicans praised Democrats, Democrats praised Republicans. Jimmy Byrnes...
Although he had a private understanding with President Truman that he would take up the portfolio of the Department of State when Byrnes put it down, General Marshall, too, was surprised at the sudden call from Washington informing him that the time had come. On Monday evening he drove to...
To talk to the Clevelanders and their fellow Americans came the Prime Minister of Italy, the Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia, the Hungarian Minister to Paris, the head of France's second largest political party, the U.S. Secretary of the Navy. At the Cleveland Institute James F. Byrnes delivered an...