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It all seemed to add up to a diplomatic policy greatly influenced if not largely created by the War and Navy Departments, two branches of the government whose chief historic preoccupation has been with war, rather than peace. While the good grey Secretary Byrnes tirelessly performed his role at the...
A "no" to question No. 1 washed out all the other questions. The bald fact is that no one in the State Department has yet sat down with the British to work out execution of the policy the two countries agreed to in August. Nor has the State Department even...
Assistant Secretary Hilldring's advisers agree that the British have been completely unable to get smoke pouring out of the Ruhr stacks, and that if the policy stated boldly by Byrnes is to be anything but a grim failure, it must be supported, at least through its critical initial...
Assistant Secretary of War Howard C. Petersen, War Department member of SWNCC (State-War-Navy Coordinating Committee), said he had no knowledge of any State Department effort to get what Editor Elliston calls a "plan" written. But Petersen defended the State Department on the grounds that the Byrnes policy was...
By V-E day or soon after, he argues, the British were able to persuade U.S. "reactionaries" in the State Department and elsewhere to back British imperial interests against Russia. The Soviets became alarmed and rang down the Iron Curtain. Thinks Elliott: the "only two nations whose security interests clash...