Word: byrneses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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At Potsdam, Secretary of State James Francis Byrnes had marveled at the efficiency with which General George Catlett Marshall operated his office-away-from-home. Curious, he asked the General how he did it. The reply: "Get a man like McCarthy."
Last week Jimmy Byrnes did. From General Marshall's personal staff he drafted 33-year-old Colonel Frank McCarthy, ex-reporter (Richmond News Leader) and ex-pressagent for the 1937 Broadway farce, Brother Rat, made him an Assistant Secretary of State.
Up from B.A. State's reorganization was under way (TIME, Aug. 27). Last week Jimmy Byrnes accepted the resignation of Assistant Secretary Nelson Rockefeller-the day after Rockefeller, in a Boston speech, had soundly spanked the Argentine Government (see LATIN AMERICA). But he had long been a target for...
In his place, Jimmy Byrnes put a man about whose opinions and actions there was little doubt: big, bluff Spruille Braden, U.S. Ambassador to Argentina since the U.S. recognized the Farrell Government last April. In Buenos Aires, Spruille Braden had resisted the threats and insults of fascist-minded Argentines who...
On to London. Another even more important change was apparently in the offing. At a Washington press conference last week, Jimmy Byrnes went out of his way to praise Assistant Secretary James Clement Dunn.