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The idea for this kind of peace conference, staged without pomp and with strictly limited membership, was an American idea. It was suggested at San Francisco by Assistant Secretary of State James C. Dunn, a State Department career man for 25 years. The suggestion was approved by President Truman, sold...
Strong Fusion. To London with Jimmy Byrnes, on the first sailing of the Queen Elizabeth since V-J day, went his wife, Maude; his closest adviser, Benjamin V. Cohen, the middle-aged wonder boy of the New Deal; Assistant Secretary Dunn, and a retinue of department specialists. Another notable member...
London would be Jimmy Byrnes's first big test. He would represent the most powerful nation of the world at the zenith of its influence. He would be the agent of a new President who had, in a few short months, injected a strong fusion of Realpolitik and plain...
First order of business in London, after organizing formalities, would be the peace treaty with Italy. Second: the Balkans, with special attention to reorganization of Rumania's government. Third: discussion of a future provisional government in Germany. After that, Jimmy Byrnes would come home and report promptly to the...
Neophyte? By last week South Carolina's Jimmy Byrnes had been Secretary of State just two months. There were some who still felt a little anxious about the U.S. being represented-and among all those experienced foreigners-by such a comparative neophyte. (Actually, only Molotov has had more experience...