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To Foreign Minister Molotov and the others was given a crystal-clear exposition of U.S. attitudes and intentions. In a dispassionate, soberly frank speech last week, Secretary of State James F. Byrnes told Russia that its own attitude of distrust and its belief in the inevitability of World War III...
To the U.S. people, as well as to the diplomats, Jimmy Byrnes said that the "development of sympathetic understanding" between the two great powers was "the paramount task of statesmanship." That, he pledged, was the course of a "patient but firm" U.S. policy.
To the U.S. people Secretary Byrnes's speech was a sharp reminder, in the midst of the congressional election campaign, that the nonpartisan business of making a peace was quite as important as the meat shortage and partisan squabbles. Another pointed reminder, and a warning, came from the man...
He echoed Jimmy Byrnes's dislike of "too tough" as an inaccurate description of the U.S. attitude. The bipartisan policy, he said, was "friendly firmness," and it was a policy of peace, not of war. Said Senator Vandenberg:
Professor Friedrich explained that generally speaking, he sides with Byrnes in the foreign policy controversy. He attacked over-emphasis on atomic energy control and the scientists who "never before showed an interest in politics and now come up with their blue-eyed schemes," adding that he himself "wouldn't be...