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(11 of 13) hangar-shaped Public Auditorium. They heard and cheered the two men most responsible for the now bipartisan foreign policy of the U.S.-Michigan's Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg and retiring Secretary of State James F. Byrnes.
Senator Vandenberg firmly repeated his hope of disarmament as "our dearest dream." But: "We shall not disarm alone. . . . We shall take no 'sweetness and light' for granted in a world where there is still too much 'iron curtain.' We shall not trust alone to fickle words...
We ask nothing for ourselves except reciprocal fair play. . . . Our 'reply to the world' is a challenge to match us in good works." The Senator paid a parting tribute to Jimmy Byrnes: "I salute him with affection and profound respect; [he] has been an able, efficient, courageous Secretary...
Byrnes. It was a sentimental moment for the retiring Secretary. He grasped Vandenberg's right hand with both of his own, and they talked earnestly for several minutes. Jimmy Byrnes received another tribute-his big audience rose to a thunderous ovation when he was introduced.* Smiling widely, he said...
Byrnes's valedictory was a sober factual review of the progress of U.S. foreign relations in a year when U.S. policy-and the hopes of lasting peace itself-emerged from the shadows of confusions and doubts. Grave difficulties, he said, had arisen at the very outset of efforts to...