Word: byrneses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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But when he became Secretary of State (1944) he found he was just Franklin Roosevelt's standin. Eight months later, when Harry Truman replaced him with Jimmy Byrnes, Truman offered Stettinius what he termed "the most important job at my command"-i.e., permanent representation on the U.N. Security Council...
Last week, earnest Ed found the Byrnes stand-in one whirl too many. In a letter to the President, he announced his wish to retire from history, and declared (a trifle dizzily, perhaps) that the job of organizing the U.N. was completed. After a decent interval for surprise and protest...
Outside the office of Secretary of State Byrnes, curious reporters made another try. Whimsically, Inverchapel explained that until he had presented his credentials to the President he was only "a ghost, an astral body." The solid ghost, with a red face and a big nose, then evaporated in the general...
Britons and Americans knew the Russian charges were untrue; but they also sensed last week that the Byrnes-Molotov "debate" (more accurately described as a duet of denunciation) on the Paris conference had put Russia and the West further apart than ever. How serious was the cleavage?
Byrnes's denial of the bloc's existence was true, in the sense that no sane and responsible Britons and Americans planned an attack on the Soviet Union. And Molotov's charge that the bloc existed was true, in the sense that Britain and the U.S. would...