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Wild Bill Donovan wanted the salvageable parts of this machine to get independent status, under the President. Last week he could settle for its peacetime placement beneath Jimmy Byrnes' wing. But his own reconversion to the law would seem prosaic.
When China's Wang or France's Bidault was in the chair, the going was relatively smooth. Table-thumping began when one of the other three took the gavel. Byrnes and Molotov did not get along well, and Molotov disliked Bevin.
Russian proposals for a treaty with Finland had easy sailing. So had their peace terms for Hungary-until the U.S. and Britain discovered that Russia had signed a trade treaty under which the U.S.S.R. might monopolize half of Hungary's trade. Rumania and Bulgaria were still tougher cases. Secretary...
Journey to the West. For him, for Greece and for the western world, it had been an interesting trip. The British had given him his first journey by air. In London he had talked with Clement Attlee, Ernest Bevin, the U.S.'s Jimmy Byrnes, and his exiled sovereign, George...
The first round of the diplomatic struggle for Mediterranean influence was disposition of the Italian colonies. Jimmy Byrnes came up with a solution: all Italian colonies would be placed under a United Nations trusteeship; after a decade or more some of them might be ready for independence.