Word: byrneses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After dinner on Thanksgiving Day a year ago, Jimmy Byrnes sat alone in his Washington office, abysmally gloomy. The world had peace, but the word sounded like a bad joke. The London meeting of the Foreign Ministers had failed; not even the beginning of a peace treaty was in sight...
Something had to be done. Jimmy Byrnes cabled his Ambassador in Moscow. He (and Britain's Bevin) went to Moscow, but they accomplished almost nothing. There was worse to come. The Russian tide was rising fast. The period of acute threats and melodramatic walkouts had to be lived through...
On Thanksgiving Day this year Mr. Byrnes was not alone, nor gloomy, nor groping. His new critics, whose influence was not great, said not that he was too weak, but that he was too strong. From the high-water mark reached at the Paris Peace Conference, the Russian tide was...
Last week Byrnes had an hour alone with Molotov-and presumably with Molotov's indispensable man, Translator Vladimir ("Pinky") Pavlov. Next day the Big Four had a cozy lunch with a mere handful of aides present. The only news that came out was that the conferees ate beefsteak.
Affable Mr. Byrnes then said that the Foreign Ministers had worked hard, that they deserved a reward, that there was turkey on the sideboard. Mr. Molotov made a joke: he said that Turkey was not on the agenda. In view of "The Hammer's" new reasonableness, the least the...