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He bounded out of the plane briskly, setting foot on English soil for the first time in his life-and for the first visit of a U.S. President to Britain since Woodrow Wilson's triumphal tour in 1919. There were few Britons on hand to cheer Harry Truman. "Operation...
"I Want to Get That Man." At lunch in the Renown's operations room, the President sat at the King's right, Secretary Byrnes at the left. At leave-taking the band played again. Said Harry Truman to the King: "Your Majesty, I want to get that man...
Conference business went smoothly in spite of language difficulties and diarrhea (from bad water). Twelve subordinates, including three official interpreters, sat at the table with the Big Three. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes and Russia's good friend Joseph E. Davies were Truman's mainstays at the...
¶ Mr. Clement R. Attlee and Mr. Ernest Bevin arrived on planes six minutes apart. Mr. Bevin is Mr. Attlee's heir presumptive as leader of the Labor Party and Prime Minister, and it was deemed unwise to risk both leaders on the same plane. (Harry Truman and his...
In other Latin American capitals, officials talked of reopening the Argentine question at the Inter-American Conference in Rio de Janeiro next October. In Washington, it was rumored that Secretary of State James Francis Byrnes would withdraw Ambassador Braden from Buenos Aires as a slap at the Argentine militarists, make...