Word: byrneses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"He has unlimited patience as well as a fine mind and tremendous energy. Any exhibition of impatience or bad temper by others gives him amusement. At such times it is interesting to watch his serious, solemn expression as he protests his innocence of any provocation." Molotov was a stickler for...
To Byrnes, the South Carolinian politician, Stalin seemed different. "Where Molotov is devious, Stalin is direct. . . . He was always in good humor and enjoyed a joke." Jimmy Byrnes now says that he was not fooled, although it took him and President Truman some time to find out Stalin's...
Old Time. What was the tune? Jimmy Byrnes thought he could sing it in his sleep. The music was classical, written in the days of Peter the Great. Russians simply want more-more & more.
Molotov made that clear to Hitler in 1940 during the days of the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact. Molotov demanded recognition of Russian interests in Rumania, Bulgaria, the Dardanelles and Finland, besides the Baltic states and part of Poland, as the price of continuing friendship. In fact, Byrnes believes that...
In a Decent Manner. Soviet Russia's ambitions are the same today, only more so. "I do not doubt," says Byrnes "that their ultimate goal is to dominate, in one way or another, all of Europe."