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The U.S. sat squarely on the fence. It saluted the idea of a collective world-up to a point. But in the conduct of Assembly business and the incessant maneuvering which went on behind the scenes, not even the Russians gave any more naked demonstrations than did Jimmy Byrnes of...
(To the undisguised annoyance of some of his delegation, Jimmy Byrnes also seemed to be making every major U.S. decision himself. There was little his colleagues could do about it. But Harry Truman, who had reportedly been irritated at getting no fill-in while Byrnes was in Moscow, began calling...
The Big Power resolution for an atomic-power commission to "inquire into all phases of the problem" might yet be opposed. Pleaded Secretary of State Byrnes: "We must not fail to devise the necessary safeguards to insure that this great discovery is used for human welfare and not for more...
Britain, in particular, was coming to the meeting in a determined mood. Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin long ago put on record his Government's intention to sacrifice a good deal, but not everything, for world collaboration. Britons did not hide their feeling that at Moscow U.S. Secretary of State...
The well-informed Whitehall Letter, driving this point home, last week noted that it would be foolish "to overlook the fact that Russia's problems of demobilization, reconversion and reconstruction must inevitably be of a formidable character." This, with the rest of the letter, was a polite way of...