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In foreign policy, Labor started with a blind bias toward Russia, but Attftfe and Bevin saw the menace of Russian aggression more quickly than President Truman and Secretary of State Byrnes. It was Bevin's bearlike rush at the January 1946 U.N. meeting in London that woke the free...
Last week the President also: ¶ Crisply commented on his ex-friend and ex-Secretary of State, Jimmy Byrnes, who is running for governor of South Carolina and kicking the Fair Deal around. Mr. Byrnes, the President told his news conference, is a free agent to do as he damn...
Last June, spry old (70) James F. Byrnes emerged from retirement to make a pronouncement: "We are going down the road to statism," he warned. He added a few remarks that indicated unmistakably that the Southern states'-rights insurrectionists had found their most respectable spokesman yet.
In the ensuing months, Jimmy Byrnes kept talking and supporters kept coming, thicker than bullbats around the chimneys of his Spartanburg home on a summer evening. They thought he ought to run for governor. In October, Jimmy Byrnes issued a firmly equivocal statement: "If I conclude that as governor I...
Last week Jimmy Byrnes concluded that the answer was yes. His health was fine (a heart scare that led to his resignation as Secretary of State had proved a false alarm) and his election almost certain. His three opponents in the Democratic primary-the only election that counts-were scarcely...