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¶ Gave Jimmy Byrnes sweeping powers to fire suspected Communists or fellow travelers in the State Department.
The summer solstice, the year's shortest night, seemed short indeed to the diplomats and Parisian socialites passing the illuminated Vendome column. They pressed into Chez Paquin, where a fashion show and ballet celebrated a fateful meeting of the Big Four Foreign Ministers. The night seemed long to newsmen...
PARIS--Secretary of State James F. Byrnes and Russian Foreign Minister Viacheslav Molotov held a surprise one-hour conference today and diplomatic quarters believed that Molotov might have received fresh instructions from Moscow on the future of Trieste, biggest of the many problems which the Big Four foreign ministers face...
The delegates, at a morning meeting, decided that Italy should keep the Pustertal area which Austria has demanded. After lunch Molotov telephoned to Byrnes at the Hotel Meurice, asking for a conference. They talked from 4 P.M. to 5 P.M., when they motored to the Luxembourg palace for a plenary...
Counting the two Big Four meetings and their own talk; Byrnes and Molotov were engaged in conferences for 6 1/2 hours during the day.