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As everybody expected, the President dismissed earnest, young Edward R. Stet-tinius Jr. as Secretary of State, made him the U.S. representative on the World Security Council, a not-yet-existent job which nobody knew much about, but which sounded promising. To replace him, the President, to nobody's...
Good Friend. The change was good Truman politics. In Jimmy Byrnes he got a regular Democrat as well as one liked by almost all Senate and House members. Harry Truman wanted most of all to get along with Congress on foreign affairs. Byrnes was also a good friend; a TrumanByrnes...
What would the change mean in U.S. foreign relations? In the light of Jimmy Byrnes's record, an estimate would go something like this:
"A more consistent U.S. foreign policy can be expected with Jimmy Byrnes as Secretary of State. In all probability it will eventually be carried out by a better-oiled and organized machine than that which operated under Cordell Hull and Ed Stettinius. This policy will be businesslike, straightforward and more...
"Byrnes's reputation is that of a skillful compromiser, able to compel agreement by patience, charm of manner and an elastic mind. He has the realism-and sometimes the cynicism-of the profes sional politician. All of the evidence is that he is essentially conservative, a gradualist in all...