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¶ Two days after he received an LL.D. from New York's Columbia University, former Secretary of State James F. Byrnes told Aiken County, S.C. high-school graduates that the phrase "you-all" was good English-if it is used as Southerners use it, in the plural. Said Byrnes...
But in January 1945 he publicly renounced isolationism, proposed a treaty with Britain and Russia to keep Germany and Japan disarmed forever. As a result, Franklin Roosevelt picked him as a delegate to the San Francisco conference which set up U.N. Since then he has been a delegate to the...
There were demands for energetic action. One voice raised was that of ex-Secretary of State Jimmy Byrnes. He urged immediate re-enactment of Selective Service, the building of a powerful new Air Force, a flat declaration to the Russians that the U.S. would act immediately in the event of...
The President's proposals Wednesday followed from the conviction that his program has failed during the past year because he has provided no military bite to back up his diplomatic bark. Selective Service and Universal Military Training, he feels together with such men as James F. Byrnes and Walter Lippman...
3. James Byrnes tells of his diplomatic struggles as Secretary of State.