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Whether Roosevelt said it or not (the story has been denied) Hillman's refusal to "clear" Jimmy Byrnes for the Vice Presidency ended in the nomination of a man more acceptable to labor-Harry Truman.
That night, Bevin and his colleagues (in the front rooms) did not get away for dinner. Throughout the last weary hours of the Paris Foreign Ministers' Conference, Bevin and Byrnes had tried to erect the framework of an Austrian peace treaty. Molotov stymied them with a typical Soviet roadblock...
Finally, at 9:15, Ernie Bevin's small brown eyes wearily encompassed the gilded room, of which everyone was heartily sick by now. As last-day chairman of the conference, he asked: "Any more items?" Bidault waved his hands in a negative gesture. Molotov gazed stonily through the window...
The accomplishments of the Big Four meeting thus closed were well symbolized by Jimmy Byrnes's circular doodles. For four weeks, the Ministers had moved, in vicious and constricting circles, around the central issue of peace. They had achieved synthetic agreement on their approach to peripheral problems, like Italian...
Said Byrnes with patient hope: "As war breeds war, so peace can be made to breed peace." But Byrnes summed up the spirit of the impending Peace of Paris when he said, speaking of the Italian colonial agreement: "The thing I like ... is that [it] does not require unanimity."