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Jimmy Byrnes admitted that there were times when "our repeated efforts to achieve cooperation in a peaceful world seemed to be meeting only with constant rebuff. But we persisted in our efforts with patience and with firmness. Today I am happy to say that I am more confident than at...
* It was written by ''the Corn-Law rhymer" Ebenezer Elliott, in the 18405. After he had lost his wife's money in business, Elliott sang wrathfully of unwise tax and trade laws. *All the speakers at the Institute spoke in English, although some of them (Uruguay'...
As the headlines broke out on Marshall and Byrnes (see,NATIONAL AFFAIRS), gossip columnists rushed forward and took hasty bows. Some of the gossips (who predict a hatful of things, on the chance that a few will come to pass) had predicted long ago that Jimmy Byrnes would quit. In...
The White House had prepared a timetable giving the sequence of four big pieces of news: General Marshall's recall, his China report, Jimmy Byrnes's resignation, and Marshall's appointment. The timetable was a secret, and none of the press was in on it. But as...
From one high-echelon friend, who was himself stepping down from a Government job, Scotty Reston got a big tip. In an artful story in Tuesday's Times, Reston passed it along without confirmation: "... some observers . . . believe [that] General Marshall may be asked to replace Mr. [Dean] Acheson with...