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The Senate, which had heard all this before, calmly went about confirming Mrs. Roosevelt's appointment. Quickly they approved the rest of the first-string team the President wanted to send to London-former Secretary of State Ed Stettinius, Democratic Senator Tom Connally, Republican Senator Arthur Vandenberg, Secretary of...
Ernie Bevin, who has spent 31 years in politics, is even more cautious than Jimmy Byrnes. With a wary look in his eye, Bevin arrived in Moscow swaddled in a heavy woolen suit, a thick olive-drab sweater, an enormous fur-lined and collared black coat and fleece-lined boots...
Gnomes & Communiqués. Byrnes went to Spasso House, the U.S. embassy, where he spent the next morning reading a long document prepared in Washington to brief him on Big Three issues throughout the world. Bevin went to the British embassy, where Ambassador Clark Kerr turned over to him his...
Maximum objective of the meeting was sufficient agreement between the Three to permit convocation of a general peace conference and to dispel the clouds of suspicion that hover over UNO. The conferees, however, stressed mininium objectives. Said Byrnes: "It will not be a bad sign if this meeting does not...
Gridiron merrymaking follows a peculiarly American pattern. Nowhere else could so many watch the faces of a President, his Cabinet and Supreme Court Justices taking lampoonery aimed right between their eyes. In one satiric skit, Gridironers ribbed U.S. foreign policy aboard "The Acheson, the Clayton & the James F. Byrnes." In...