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A year ago, some Williams alumni were not under the collar about Professor Schuman. At that time, George Sokolsky's column in the New York Sun criticized a review Schuman had written of "Speaking Frankly," a book by ex-Secretary of State James F. Byrnes.
Among the other wartime experiences of Conant brought out in the article is his December 1945 trip to Moscow with Secretary of State Byrnes, to discuss atomic energy control with the Russians. He was entertained at a Christmas Eve dinner, "a supergala performance," in which Molotov served as toastmaster. After...
Lazy Louts. Committee members protested that the bill had been railroaded through after only seven minutes' discussion and with no hearings at all. Cried Wisconsin's Republican John Byrnes: "This legislation is dishonest ... In ten years, our veterans will be shouldering half the nation's tax burden...
Secretary of State Byrnes spent more than half his 18 months in office traveling about the world. In George Marshall's 24 months as Secretary, he had been away from his desk more than 200 days. The new Secretary, Dean Acheson, wanted to keep his toothbrush and razor at...
Studied Air. He was something new after the blunt integrity of Marshall, the glad-handing of Stettinius, the political quickness of Byrnes, the Hull who had been alternately earthy and ponderous. The new Secretary was a man who took as much care with his phrases as he did with his...