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After he turns in his report in November, Joe Kennedy will go to Palm Beach for the winter. He says he has no political ambitions, that he is too old to return to public life. But he and Secretary of State Jimmy Byrnes are close friends, and he and Harry...
Australia's hulking, tireless Herbert Vere Evatt led the small and middle nations' fight, as he had at San Francisco. When the Italian treaty came before the Council of Five (for the U.S., Byrnes; for Britain, Bevin; for Russia, Molotov; for France, Bidault; for China, Wang Shih-chieh...
Third of the top triumvirate is Assistant Secretary Dunn, a man of two reputations. Inside the Department he is known and admired for his thorough knowledge of Department procedure. Many on the outside consider him a man who married wealth (Armour) and adopted arch-conservative views. Jimmy Byrnes has found...
Besides Dunn, the only other member of Ed Stettinius' team whom Byrnes kept in his old job was Assistant Secretary Will Clayton, an ex-cotton broker, millionaire, friend of Jesse Jones, and shrewd economic horse trader currently negotiating postwar loans with the British (see INTERNATIONAL). For Assistant Secretary in...
In the troubled sky of a world at peace, the awful afterglow of the atomic bomb still lingered. Just before leaving for London, Secretary of State James F. Byrnes sharply castigated loose talk that the U.S. might give away the secret (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). In London, however, there was persistent...