Word: byrneses
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After the surprise, there were general cheers. After all, rich Averell Harriman had some acquaintance with business (Union Pacific Railroad, Wall Street, etc.) even if it had been largely in the coupon-clipping area. He had been at most of the major international conferences from the Atlantic Charter meeting to...
This week he was back at the Paris Peace conference, backstopping Jimmy Byrnes. It would be several weeks before he took over at Commerce.
State-James F. Byrnes for Edward Stettinius (gain).
Even while the Byrnes-Wallace controversy raged and U.S. foreign policy was, in effect, in suspension, the U.S. last week made significant moves on the diplomatic chessboard.
The long arm of revolutionary pan-Slavism reached into the U.S. last week and beckoned 2,000 American Slav delegates to a congress in Manhattan. In the stuffy ballroom of dingy Manhattan Center, they cheered their heroes (Franklin D. Roosevelt, Henry Wallace, Claude Pepper) and hissed their villains (President Truman...