Word: byrneses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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For one of the few times in his presidency, there was nothing on Harry Truman's desk that required urgent action. His chief unfinished business-other than backing up Jimmy Byrnes at Paris-was filling some top Administration vacancies. He had at least one good candidate around: Wisconsin'...
"Without mincing words, the purpose of the new American policy is to deny control of Germany, and therefore of Europe, to the Soviet Union. Statesmen on public rostrums do not of course speak so plainly. Yet that was the real motive of Secretary of State James F. Byrnes's...
"Curiously enough, Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin was at first dismayed. . . . Further study made the Foreign Office realize, however, that Byrnes's tactics were a remarkable blend of subtlety and realism. Therefore the economic unification of the British and American zones of occupation is now being negotiated here in Berlin...
Simple Tactic. "Byrnes's tactical theory was very simple. On the one hand, it was obvious there was no value in any scheme which did not assure true political and economic unification of Germany. It would actually be dangerous to enter into cumbersome and unworkable compromises which would give...
But Perón's act did not mean that Argentina (or the U.S.) was ready to let bygones be bygones. As Foreign Minister Juan A. Bramuglia pointed out, the Act of Chapultepec only bound Argentina to attend another Pan-American conference. In Washington, State Department officials heard from...