Word: byrneses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Some 3,000 well-wishers, among them the President, gathered at Washington National Airport to see Secretary of State Byrnes off to the Paris Peace Conference. Said Mr. Truman: "The country is behind Mr. Byrnes in his efforts to get a just peace for the world. . . . Good luck, Mr. Byrnes...
Mr. Byrnes climbed into the President's plane, the Sacred Cow, and soared off. He would need luck. Once more the U.S. and Russia were meeting at the council table, and once again it would be a meeting between political enemies, not friends. U.S. weapons: its military potential, the...
Awful Responsibility. What was the moral force behind Jimmy Byrnes? How deeply had it impressed Russia and the world? One answer was contained in the record of U.S. behavior at the end of the first year of the Atomic Age, which Harry Truman had ushered in with the words: "It...
This time, as the arriving U.S. delegation quietly drove through Paris, there were no pilgrims to proffer prayers and roses. No one thought of cheering "Byrnes the Just." Whatever the Peace of Paris might bring, it would not cause the corrosive disillusionment which came in the wake of 1919'...
Viacheslav Molotov got a nice friendly pat on his pudgy face. Said Rosane Taillefere, a beauteous blonde secretary at the recent Paris Conference of Foreign Ministers: "Mr. Bevin was too stout . . . Mr. Byrnes . . . seemed just a small man . . . but Mr. Molotov-ah! He had such lovely blue eyes."