Word: byrneses
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At first Byrnes set too much store by the bullbat session. In Moscow last December he had a long, informal chat with Joe Stalin. Joe seemed to like Jimmy, and when Jimmy left he thought he and Joe saw eye-to-eye on two points Jimmy had made: 1) the...
When Jimmy got back to Washington, he found, in less amiable sessions, a prevailing impression that the Russians had out-bargained him on the atomic-control agreement. Before Byrnes left for the January U.N. meeting in London, President Truman reminded him that Vanden-berg's support was necessary to...
If Byrnes had continued to stand for patience with Russia while Vandenberg stood for firmness, U.S. policy might have been paralyzed by division. Instead the Senator from Michigan and the ex-Senator from South Carolina (who understood each other well, although there was no great affection between them) began to...
History Goes "Quack, Quack." Through the summer, in bullbat sessions and public meetings at the 21-nation Conference in Paris, Byrnes talked well and vigorously. On one occasion he cried: "I will sit here no more arguing whether the word should be 'and' or 'but' . . . haggling...
The Paris Conference proved that open covenants could not be openly arrived at this side of eternity, because delegates spoke for home consumption and would not make concessions in the open. It also demonstrated some more important points: 1) that the West could find propaganda answers to Russian propaganda; 2...