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To Fleming the War and post-War years read like a catalogue of Western intransigence, duplicity and unjustified demands. Churchill and Stalin had agreed that the former would rule Greece while the latter controlled Rumania and Bulgaria. Consequently, when the left wing Greek government was crushed by Churchill in favor...
Gathered together to pay tribute to the right-mindedness of Virginia's Judge Howard Smith, 79, the leading citizens of South Carolina cheered lustily as former Secretary of State Jimmy Byrnes presented the autocratic chairman of the House Rules Committee with an eminently appropriate gift: a gavel hewn from...
REP. JOHN W. BYRNES House of Representatives Washington
I have flatly denied this charge ever since it was first made in the most partisan kind of context, a speech by Congressman John Byrnes to the Republican State Convention in Milwaukee, when the 1958 campaign was waxing hot. . . .
Chambers' startling statements touched off an impassioned and bitter national debate. At first, public sentiment favored Hiss, for the case seemed to turn solely on the word of a confessed Communist agent determined to destroy a man who had been the trusted colleague of such officials as the late...