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His position could be succinctly defined: "The President has said in the most categorical language that he is not contemplating any change whatever in the foreign policy of the United States . . . The policies which President Truman has followed were evolved with the help of two Secretaries [Byrnes and Marshall]. I...
At first, Acheson was concerned mostly with economic affairs and liaison with Congress, where he was well liked. Later, he got deeper into policy. During the war and immediately after it, Acheson favored "sympathetic understanding" of the Russians. It was a policy opposed by another Assistant Secretary, Adolf A. Berle...
Kenneth C. Royall, Secretary of the Army, organized the group, which will be headed by James T. Byrnes, former Supreme Court Justice and Secretary of State. The group's first meeting early next month will be attended by Maj. Gen. Hanford Macnider '11, member of the Harvard Board of Overseers...
That was that. Washington and the capitals of Western Europe breathed a little more easily, although in an atmosphere of continuing uncertainty and suspense. The feeling was, "What next?" Not since Harry Truman had similarly embarrassed Secretary of State Byrnes (who also happened to be in Paris at the time...
Occasionally the trick is to decipher the information after you have it. At one time during the Paris Peace Conference the then U.S. Secretary of State, Jimmy Byrnes, was too busy to talk to Laguerre about an important issue and promised to write out the answer for him during that...