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Champions of the loan were skeptical enough to extend themselves to unusual last-minute efforts. President Truman dashed off a special letter of appeal; Secretary of State Byrnes cabled anxiously from Paris; from retirement old Cordell Hull added more arguments to the weight of pressure.
Snapped Byrnes: "It is obvious that the Soviet delegate does not intend to permit these invitations to be sent until he has satisfied the purpose, whatever it is, he has in mind." Molotov now attempted a diversion; he suggested that the Foreign Ministers discuss Germany while the Deputies worked over...
Byrnes replied: "I have had General Clay waiting in Paris for the last week so that I could be ready to discuss Germany at any time. But the Soviet delegate refused. I for one do not intend to be forced by Mr. Molotov into a discussion of Germany. . . . The Soviet...
Byrnes made the answer for the Western powers: "If you fear that the Peace Conference will be a rubber stamp, let us leave it to the Conference to make its own rules. . . . Nowhere does it state, in the Moscow Declaration or anywhere else, that the Council of Foreign Ministers will...
The 1946 arguments for keeping Trieste out of Yugoslav hands were good ones, and Secretary Byrnes and Foreign Secretary Bevin had made them. For the sake of getting on with the peace, they had compromised with Molotov on a French proposal to internationalize the city (which has a preponderantly Italian...