Word: byrneses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mr. Byrnes added bravely: "There is no reason to fear an open and vigorous contest between our conception of democracy and other political faiths. The voice of democracy is as thrilling today as it was yesterday."
Harry Truman put in a grueling week. Fast-walking Jimmy Byrnes darted in & out of the White House side door several times a day with the latest news of Iran and Turkey. W. Averell Harriman, the retiring Ambassador to Moscow, conferred with the President. So did Chief of Staff General...
The House Military Affairs Committee called in a whole array of experts: State Secretary Byrnes, War Secretary Patterson, Chief of Staff Eisenhower, Chief of Naval Operations Nimitz, the Air Forces' General Spaatz. Many a Congressman not on the committee tried to crash the closed hearing without success.
From what newsmen could pick up afterward, Jimmy Byrnes saw no danger of an immediate war with Russia. But he was afraid Russia's policies might touch off an "incident" that would get out of hand, or might create such animosities that war would eventually be inevitable. He had...
Plans & Needs. The Special Envoy reported his views on Chungking and Manchuria to President Truman and Secretary of State Byrnes. But his prime reason for returning to the U.S. was to get rapid action on credits to China.