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The bishops spoke for all. The world, watching the struggle between America's Byrnes and Russia's Molotov, prayed for peace. That was why the eyes of the world focused on Henry Wallace last week. In a voice that was heard in every capital he proclaimed: Our present...
"Superhuman Forbearance." Secretary Byrnes was in Paris. Since the opening of the Peace Conference, an amateur statistician of the Quai d'Orsay had estimated Byrnes had uttered some 90,000 words in public. But since Wallace had attacked his policy he had not spoken one. Now he still said...
Others spoke. From capitals around the world dispatches poured into Washington. Acting Secretary of State Will Clayton had rushed to the White House four times in three days. Byrnes knew all this. Still he said nothing. Louder than a million words, the overwhelming silence from Jimmy Byrnes echoed across the...
Washington Calling. Harry Truman could stand it no longer. The day after he put a temporary gag on Henry Wallace, he called his Secretary of State on the transatlantic phone. The connection was bad. So he walked to the teletype in the White House communications room. In his mind'...
Deputy to Director Vannevar Bush of the OSRD and special consultant to Major General Leslie Groves, Conant was the No. 1 intermediary between scientists, industrialists and military, an indispensable link in building the Bomb. His success in this role does not make Conant altogether happy. He considers control of the...