Word: byrneses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"A Little Bomb." At a dinner party, one of the conference's few pleasant interludes, Molotov said of Byrnes: "He doesn't need to persuade anyone. He just has to hold up a little bomb." A delegate who heard him remarked: "Mr. Molotov never makes jokes just to...
The Russians deserved much of the blame. But the others were not without sin. The U.S. delegation was badly briefed. Within the delegation, sharp differences developed. To some observers, Byrnes gave the impression of a man who had already convinced himself that Europe's problems were insoluble. This attitude...
Molotov's maneuver sorely displeased Jimmy Byrnes. Said he: such a proposal was not on the Foreign Ministers' agenda, and therefore he was not prepared to discuss it. Thoroughly angered at Molotov on other points, Britain's Bevin at first sided with Byrnes. But the Dominions, headed...
Something had to give. At week's end Mr. Byrnes announced the solution: the preliminary commission already proposed by the U.S. would meet shortly in Washington and set up a stronger commission for Tokyo. Participants: the Big Five, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, The Netherlands, the Philippines, possibly India.
After Potsdam, Harry Truman and Jimmy Byrnes squeezed Grew out, and purged other men who thought like him. The Department's Far Eastern policy is now being run by "old China hands" who believe that defeated Japan can be kept down and that China can become the key power...