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The U.S. public did not sense the meaning of Byrnes's tireless efforts until one August week when five U.S. Army flyers lay dead in a tiny village in the Julian Alps, victims of Marshal Tito's outdated confidence that the U.S. would look the other way. Communist...
Recessional. Two weeks later Byrnes made his great Stuttgart speech in which he recognized, as the Potsdam Pact had not, that a healthy Germany was necessary for a reconstructed Europe. To insure that a strong Germany would not again dominate the Continent, Byrnes made a solemn promise:
Europe believed Byrnes. The great Russian recessional began. As the year waned the Russian-stooge government in Azerbaijan collapsed. Communist-sponsored candidates lost the Berlin elections. Moscow reduced its German garrisons. Pressure on Turkey eased. Europe began to breathe more easily.
At the New York sessions of U.N. and the Foreign Ministers the going got sticky again. Byrnes asked Molotov, who likes a little bullbatting himself, up to his room in the Waldorf-Astoria. Informally, the two began to make progress. When the formal sessions ended, Byrnes had a deal on...
The Art of the Possible. Byrnes's two chief helpers are Charles E. ("Chip") Bohlen, a handsome, alert careerist who acts as his Russian adviser-translator, and Benjamin V. ("Ben") Cohen, once mu:h the better half of F.D.R.'s (Thomas G.) Corcoran & Cohen team. Cohen, an idealist...