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¶ Read a Gallup Poll showing that 61% of the nation's voting Democrats favor Truman for President in 1948 (runners-up: Henry Wallace, General Dwight Eisenhower, James Byrnes and Edward Stettinius.)
All through the Foreign Ministers' conference Jimmy Byrnes had set the pace. When the bruises from the same old obstacles round the same old course became too painfully familiar last week, he urged a recess to June 15. His equally battered colleagues agreed. Next day, as the adjournment meeting...
All week dancing and deadlocks alternated. The turning point, perhaps of the whole Conference, came in a small, appropriately smoke-filled Second Empire room of Paris' Luxembourg Palace. Agreement was as far away as ever. Then Jimmy Byrnes, with a shrewd Irish glance at the silent gathering, shrewdly moved...
That evening Byrnes entertained at the small, stolid U.S. Embassy. A mere 300 guests crowded in. Molotov and Byrnes went into the garden for a breath of air and a bit of diplomatic shop talk. "The Soviets," said Byrnes with a sweeping gesture, "have a much better building. The British...
"In our country," Byrnes continued, "the State Department gets the least funds of any government. We send these boys out into the world and we can't pay them decent salaries. I am introducing a bill in Congress now to improve that situation." Politely Molotov protested that it was...