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Secretary of State Jimmy Byrnes gamely wrestled with social science at a Foreign Policy Association dinner in Manhattan. Said he:
Ernest Bevin did more than any other man in London to lift UNO above its fears. Many an emissary from smaller nations had come to London with ideals as high as Bevin's, and higher eloquence. But Bidault, for instance, dared not speak up; French Communists were too strong...
Its text had been kept secret even from Jimmy Byrnes until last week, six months after the time when military necessity might have excused a hush-hush policy. While it had a military consideration (Russia's joining in the Japanese war), the agreement itself was as political as a...
But expediency was not enough to cover the loss to the U.S. moral position from secret diplomacy. The U.S. had come so far from Wilson's "open covenants openly arrived at" that no one knew whether Byrnes himself knew that the latest Yalta disclosure would be the last.
Britain's Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin had bluntly charged that the Polish Government's secret police used wholesale murder in order to intimidate the Polish electorate. The victims were members of the middle-of-the-road Polish Peasant Party, led by Vice Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk. Last week U.S...