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...portraits of some of Jimmy's old acquaintances-Molotov, Roosevelt, Stalin and Eisenhower. Long retired from statecraft, Jim keeps active by overseeing the James F. Byrnes Foundation, which he organized in 1947 to provide college scholarships for needy students. The youngsters, in turn, have given the childless Byrneses a bronze plaque inscribed: "To Mom and Pop Byrnes from your foundation children...
Robert F. Byrnes, professor of history at Indiana University, said in a letter that Izvestia's "unwarranted and irresponsible" attack jeopardized a program of scholarly exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union. Byrnes is chairman of the Inter-University Committee on Travel Grants, an organization formed in 1955...
Byrnes called on the Soviet authorities to take steps to "reduce the danger to our scholars from journalistic libel."
Reston's realization that policy must be reported while it is still being debated gave him his modus operandi: "Read the newspapers and raise in your own mind the unanswered questions. You can anticipate what the government will do, and, on the basis of that, go after it." This "projective...
It was generally known that Byrnes wished to step down. It was also known that whenever any opening appeared in the Administration, President Truman asked why General George Marshall wouldn't be a good man to fill it. So, when the AP ticker reported that Marshall had been called home...