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This time Charles de Gaulle was smiling, cordial, no longer unbending. His mission was obvious: to regain U.S. affection for France. He stepped out of the big, silvery Avro York plane jauntily, moved rapidly through the line of stiff-standing French officers to greet Secretary of State James Francis Byrnes...
Wrote Secretary of State James Byrnes: "By [the democratic] process you have been cleared. I am happy to approve the recommendation that you be returned to active duty. ... I predict for you a continuance of a splendid record."
Jimmy Byrnes was thus carrying out to the letter the Big Three agreements reached at Yalta and Potsdam, which called for free and open elections in all of Europe's liberated countries and promised diplomatic recognition to governments set up through such elections. If Bulgaria does not comply, he...
Divine Man Friday. General MacArthur's political task would approach the impossible if U.S. statecraft had not spelled out the Emperor's subordination to the Supreme Commander for the Allied Forces. Under the Potsdam terms as interpreted in Secretary Byrnes' message to Japan, the Emperor's...
In Washington, where Premier Soong conferred with President Truman and Secretary of State Byrnes, there was widespread feeling that China was dissatisfied with the Russian pact. This was by no means certain. For Premier Soong's treaty had won for Chiang Kai-shek a breathing spell in which China...