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Secretary of State James Francis Byrnes had come back from the Paris failure with renewed determination rather than disheartenment. His proposal to throw the whole peace-making machinery into the United Nations was a diplomatic masterstroke (TIME, May 27). Then Michigan's Republican Senator Arthur Vandenberg, an aide to...
Byrnes's forceful radio report to the U.S. people this week said that if that if the Four did not agree after their recess to summon the 21-nation peace conference by "July 1 or July 15," the U.S. would submit the whole question of the peace treaties to...
On central Europe, where the two worlds divided, the Ministers made no progress at all. Molotov refused to put Austria on the agenda, even for June 15. The far more important question of Germany's future was left in midair. Russia also vetoed a Byrnes move for a "general...
Of the other obstacles, the biggest was still Trieste. The Italians and Yugoslavs both swore they would sign no treaty that did not give them this key port at the head of the Adriatic. Byrnes and Bevin switched their proposed boundaries in this area to a line (suggested by France...
Through European capitals flew rumors that the Foreign Ministers had agreed on more than they said they had. Most persistent: that Byrnes engineered a deal under which Britain got trade concessions in Italy in return for a further recognition of Russian predominance in the Balkans. Officials denied these reports, but...