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The Martinis Era. The miscalculation had been the failure to recognize that the self-interest which had kept the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. together during the war would instantly divide them as soon as the war was won. So long as Franklin Roosevelt lived, all postwar planning was based on...
Between what an Administration official called the "Four Martinis and Let's Have an Agreement" era of Franklin Roosevelt and what Marshall called the "Interminable Discussion of Disagreements" at Moscow lay two years of arduous education. Between those two eras was the San Francisco meeting of U.N., the period...
Ex-Secretary of State James F. Byrnes was making himself a future as a, has-been. He sold six articles of diplomatic reminiscing (a rumored $10,000 apiece) to the Satevepost, and a half-completed book to Harpers. Then he hung up his shingle in the Washington law office of...
In sum, OIC's impact on the world was not yet enough to answer Congressional criticisms. Nevertheless, Bill Benton and State hoped that Congress would recall a forgotten warning by ex-Secretary of State Jimmy Byrnes.
Said Byrnes: "There was a time we could afford-or thought we could afford -to be unconcerned about what other people thought of us. ... That time is past. We shall be making decisions, within the U.N. and independently, that will have repercussions affecting the lives of ordinary people all over...