Word: byrneses
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Handy Man. Of the three, the least known to the U.S. public is Mississippi-born George Allen. In Harry Truman's official family, but not of it, he holds no U.S. job, draws no Government salary. But no one, unless it is Jimmy Byrnes talking foreign policy, sees more...
When Jimmy Byrnes and Ernie Bevin left Moscow last week Big Three relations were back at the Potsdam stage of cooperation; the agreement on the peace treaties closely followed the Potsdam line. As usual, there had been a slight charge for alterations. At Potsdam, for example, America and Britain had...
On two vital questions, Turkey and Iran, the three reached no understanding at all. Stalin was said to have told Byrnes and Bevin that Russia must have all of Turkey that ever belonged to the Tsars. Russia also wanted control of the Dardanelles. As for Azerbaijan, the Russians said that...
At the end, Byrnes was buoyant. Bevin was less buoyant; asked about the future he quoted the Gospel according to St. Matthew: "Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." Molotov said nothing at all, but Moscow papers applauded the communiqué.
Jimmy Byrnes' chief aim in going to Moscow was to clear the air. That meant getting a Big Three agreement on how to deal with the atom. With no trouble, Jimmy got it. But he ran into a senatorial hornets' nest just the same.