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No Withdrawal. Byrnes offered Germans a chance to reform a nation, an opportunity denied them-"for the time being"-by the Potsdam agreement of 1945. But now the time had come: Germans should be given "under proper safeguards . . . primary responsibility for the running of their own affairs."
The dead dictator's luxurious train rolled from Berlin across the old, beaten land. In Hitler's bed slept James F. Byrnes, of Charleston, S.C. His advisor, Benjamin V. Cohen of Muncie, Ind., slept in Göring's bed, restlessly. The train rolled into Stuttgart'...
The U.S. had moved from the Paris Peace Conference, its stale yammering, its endless skirmishes around the periphery of political war, into Germany. Byrnes's journey to Stuttgart was a move into the heartland. Germany, in the end, would be the great strategic battlefield. There the U.S. now stood...
That was the nub of Jimmy Byrnes's speech, and he said it so that no one could misunderstand: "We intend to continue our interest in the affairs of Europe and of the world. ... I want no misunderstanding. We will not shirk our duty. We are not withdrawing. As...
London's News Chronicle also celebrated the Snail Watchers' anniversary-with a cartoon showing three human heads pondering the imperceptible progress of a snail. But none of them resembled Peter J. Henniker Heaton. One was unmistakably Molotov, one Byrnes, the other Bevin. The snail was labeled: Peace-