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"They Will Be Rejected." The lock was blown off by the man who headed the advisory committee, former National Chairman Stephen Mitchell. His committee's proposal, Mitchell pointed out, left plenty of muscle to throw out of the 1956 national convention any Democrat who bolted and supported Dwight Eisenhower...
"I Will Never Accept." In South Carolina, old (75) Jimmy Byrnes, who has held some of the highest offices in the land as a Democrat, was satisfied to say that he may not take any par in any political convention in 1956. Texas' Governor Shivers, elected to three terms...
For among the foxes of the world, Chiang Kai-shek long ago found the hedgehog's one big thing: the world's primary and implacable enemy was and is the Communist conspiracy directed from Moscow. It was a single-mindedness that in the 1930s exasperated his countrymen (who...
The U.S. copy of the agreement was kept in a secret White House file by Admiral Leahy. The President said not a word about it, even to his special adviser, Jimmy Byrnes, who denied six months after he became Secretary of State that such a paper existed.
Not included in the compilation are the personal notes of Presidential Adviser James Byrnes, Secretary of State Stettinius and Ambassador Harriman. Some of Harriman's official reports are, however, in the Yalta record and are notable for their clarity and forethought.