Word: byrneses
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While all this was going on, Southern Democrats began throwing you alls into Mr. Mitchell's chowder. Florida's Senator Spessard Holland said he had declined an invitation to attend the dinner because he thinks the South will gain nothing there. Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd said...
President Eisenhower last week named South Carolina's Governor James Byrnes to be one of five U.S. delegates to the eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. Howls of protest rose. Chief complaint: Byrnes is one of the South's best-known champions of race segregation; as...
¶ Textile Workers Union (C.I.O.): "This is a post for which he is outstandingly unqualified. The appointment of Byrnes will be a propaganda weapon of untold value to the Kremlin."
¶ American Jewish Congress: "Mr. James Byrnes has disqualified himself to be a spokesman of the ideals of American democracy."
The U.S.'s JIMMY BYRNES "spoke freely and ... off the cuff, but was not always legalistically precise. Molotov sought repeatedly to draw him out . . . 'What precisely was it that he proposed?' 'Would he restate the case so as to clarify it?' Molotov . . . hoped that by...