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Even Secretary of State Byrnes carried out his promise to be firmer, in what one high-placed official called at least a "mildly firmer" way. He informed Moscow that the U.S. "cannot remain indifferent" to Russia's continued occupation of Iran. He reminded Moscow a second time that the...
Last week TIME'S London Bureau cabled: "Britons are asking about and talking about war in a dreadfully matter-of-fact way-two years, five years, what will you bet?" On the Continent the schism between Russia and the West was forcing the great mass of moderate men into...
Britons welcomed the Byrnes and Vandenberg speeches as at least indirect backing. Though the U.S. was not likely to guarantee the British Empire against rising colonial peoples, minimum U.S. interests require that Russia does not replace Britain in any major area which Britain may relinquish.
The U.S. and British Governments had both shown uncertainty about what Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin whispered to each other by the Black Sea. That Secretary of State Byrnes (himself a charter member of the Knights) did not know of the Yalta deal on China was an invitation to everybody in...
Byrnes, whose life is one long series of surprises, said he knew of no such agreement. He hastily consulted fellow Knights in Washington; at week's end the State Department formally denied any agreement, "secret or otherwise." Then Moscow calmly broadcast that Anglo-American reporters had "wholly fabricated" the...