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U.S. officials who went to the Potsdam conference remember the evening when Secretary of State Byrnes showed up an hour late for dinner in the American quarters at No. 3 Wilhelmstrasse. Winston Churchill had held him up, talking. "All we do here is listen," lamented Jimmy Byrnes. "Britain tells us...
Last week, in Paris, Jimmy Byrnes began telling the world what the U.S. State Department wants. A U.S. foreign policy was being laid down in positive and specific terms. Specifically the U.S. offered to join in quadripartite control commissions for 25 years in Germany and Japan, moved to stop Russia...
These would be brave new deeds to put the U.S. in a brave new economic and moral position in the world. There was only one catch. How did Jimmy Byrnes's people feel?
The Simple Life. Although Jimmy Byrnes told France that she could have an Export-Import Bank loan, the Senate had debated for three weeks the British loan which the Administration considered the keystone of its credit program. Did the Senate's mood (sometimes willful and irresponsible) mirror the nation...
"Peace Cocktail." Before the 21-nation peace conference, originally set to start May 1 in Paris, can actually meet, the Big Four must agree to a great deal more. On Italy, their first treaty, they face such moot points as Trieste, Tripolitania and the Dodecanese. This week they put the...