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State Secretary Jimmy Byrnes had played for high stakes in London, with something less than average success. Last week, for future play in the European game, Harry Truman gave him a new stack of chips: control of surplus property disposal abroad.
By executive order, President Truman transferred to Jimmy Byrnes's Department of State:
Soon he became special assistant to Attorney General Jackson, and then to Francis Biddle. Then he was an assistant general counsel in 0PM (later WPB), and finally assistant to Jimmy Byrnes and Fred Vinson in OES. By that time (1942), "Prich" had roly-polyed his way around Washington until he...
But by then, cool Jimmy Byrnes and cool Fred Vinson had cooled him off a little, had found his nimble, retentive mind valuable. Many a time Fred Vinson took a tough problem to his boy assistant, said merely: "Let's get this straightened out, Prich." He got results.
Foreign Commissar Molotov was tougher than ever before, and more tightly bound by his instructions. U.S. Secretary of State Byrnes offered him a compromise (virtually excluding France from Balkan discussions) which was generous to the point of humiliation. Molotov cabled home for instructions, got an answer: "Stick to your brief...