Word: byrneses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There, broken in midsentence, it ended. It was unofficial: a Domei dispatch broadcast by Radio Tokyo at 7:35 a.m. (Truman time), picked up by listening monitors on the Pacific Coast, and teletyped to Washington. It was nothing that a President could formally discuss with his Allies, or reply to...
Truman told them to hurry. Byrnes, pleased and excited, almost ran through the lobby and into the President's office. Half an hour later, when they left, Forrestal was taut and hopeful. The reporters, he said, ought to have something within 30 minutes. Forrestal was wrong.
But Truman did not use the telephone; he left the communications to Jimmy Byrnes and his State Department. Yet it was the President, and none other, who had patterned the great events now coming to a climax.
Jimmy Byrnes, the skilled old master of strong compromise, finally took a hand, wrote a reply that seemed to please all concerned except the Japs and (probably) the Chinese. It was forthright, unmistakable-and it was undoubtedly a crushing blow to Tokyo's peace party. Some 27 hours after...
Wearing informal clothes and his mouse-grey fedora, Harry Truman strolled the decks, arm in arm with Jimmy Byrnes or Admiral Bill Leahy. At other times, he and Speechwriter Sam Rosenman lounged in the President's stateroom or sat on the open deck; there they wrote and rewrote the...