Word: byrneses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then the State Department got busy on the newer developments. President Truman was cruising aboard the Williamsburg in southern waters; Secretary of State Byrnes was absent at the Paris treaty conference. Acting Secretary Dean Acheson got on the phone to Byrnes; Byrnes and Truman talked with each other over a...
After Jimmy Byrnes's shorthand had been transcribed, Acheson called in the Yugoslav Charge d'Affaires and handed him a blistering U.S. note: "These outrageous acts have been perpetrated by a Government that professes to be a friendly nation. . . . The use of force . . . was without the slightest justification...
Tito ordered his planes "not to fire on foreign planes, civil or military," released the interned crew and passengers before the U.S. demand was formally delivered, said he considered the U.S. ultimatum no longer "applicable." He promised to rebury the Americans, with highest military honors, in Belgrade's American...
"Provincial Prince." Up jumped Jimmy Byrnes and gave Aunt Molly a precise piece of his mind: "Repeated abuse and misrepresentation . . . have been leveled against America from this floor. . . . What great power enriched itself during the war? I know of none. . . . America seeks no territory and seeks no reparations. . . . The U.S...
Pravda hurried to Molotov's defense. Said the official organ of the Soviet Government: Byrnes is a "provincial prince" who "forgot he [was] not at a meeting in the State Department on the affairs of Panama and Honduras, where he could remove his coat and put his feet on...