Word: byrneses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cried New Zealand's Delegate W. J. Jordan (as Soviet Delegate Andrei Vishinsky moved that France be barred from voting rights on the Rumanian and other east European treaty commissions): "Quack! Quack! Quack!" Said Senator Tom Connally (as he embarked to join Secretary of State Byrnes in Paris): "All...
James F. Byrnes was fed up too. With steady patience, the U.S. Secretary of State had listened to Foreign Minister Molotov's distortion of U.S. motives. He had watched poker-faced when Molotov (whom the British Foreign Office privately calls Aunt Molly) rudely bounced out to snub speeches he...
At that the whole town took up the cry of angry protest. Six Providence lawyers volunteered legal help. Most of the town's veterans' organizations and the Good Government Club rallied around. There were mass meetings, hangings in effigy, furious speechmaking. A minor intramural row had turned into...
Molotov's No. 2 man, cynical, subtle Andrei Vishinsky, looked around worriedly for his boss. Molotov, who is rarely late for a meeting, was not in the room.* The British delegation and some others raised their voting hands; but U.S. delegate Jimmy Byrnes apparently assumed that no vote would...
In Washington the "federation" plan was voted down in a stormy Cabinet session at which Henry Wallace led the opposition. The Cabinet action was a serious rebuff to Secretary Byrnes who had approved the plan. Byrnes's acquiescence may have been influenced by the recent U.S. refusal to give...