Word: byrneses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just 170 years later, in Paris, James F. Byrnes needed a thermometer a lot more than Jefferson had. In the hectic week before the Russians finally agreed that a 21-nation Peace Conference should be called on July 29, the political temperature rose & fell dizzily as the Russians changed their...
Quick Shift. On the evening of July 4, 1946, V. M. Molotov had said: "Tozhe ne vozrazhayu-I, too, do not object." The other delegates thought that sentence ended ten months of wrangling over convocation of the Peace Conference. But the worst was ahead. Next day, Molotov, as one American...
But Molotov's conciliatory mood was short-lived. The deadline set by Byrnes for clearing up the agenda, June 28 (it happened to be the 27th anniversary of the Versailles Treaty and the 32nd anniversary of Archduke Ferdinand's assassination at Sarajevo), had arrived. Besides Trieste, other issues...
Byrnes insisted that the 21-nation conference be called for July 20-that would give the ministers plenty of time to agree.
"But even if we do not, the conference must be held." Britain's Bevin and France's Bidault spoke up for an early conference. Gazing steadily at Molotov, Byrnes said: "It is now clear who is exercising the veto. I want to know how much longer he is...