Word: byrneses
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There was nothing unusual, he answered, about his phone conversation with Secretary Byrnes in Paris. He had never heard of a Cabinet meeting to discuss the French loan. What did the Cabinet discuss? That was none of the questioner's business.
With the Big Four's Foreign Ministers bogged down in deadlocks at Paris last week, Jimmy Byrnes leaned forward in his armchair. He eyed the pile of papers before him on the green-topped table and waved aside the conflicts they contained. "Gentlemen," he smiled, "it appears that we...
Byrnes almost pulled off something even rarer in diplomacy than in baseball-an unassisted triple play. He confirmed the world's growing belief that a strong, positive U.S. line is the best guarantee against a new war. He offered a specific solution for the German problem-the indispensable prelude...
Britain's Ernie Bevin and France's Georges Bidault approved the Byrnes plan in principle, but Russia's Viacheslav Molotov promptly countered that before he discussed a treaty to assure Germany's disarmament he would have to know just how far Germany had been disarmed. Tass...
Despite the Soviet smoke screen, Byrnes's clear affirmative had vastly improved the U.S. position; the burden of proof in a dozen international trouble spots was shifted to Russia, which would now have to show why a U.S. alliance was not a better security than land grabs. Byrnes, after...