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Others spoke. From capitals around the world dispatches poured into Washington. Acting Secretary of State Will Clayton had rushed to the White House four times in three days. Byrnes knew all this. Still he said nothing. Louder than a million words, the overwhelming silence from Jimmy Byrnes echoed across the Atlantic...
...Died. Clayton Hamilton, 64, playwright, critic, 16-time Pulitzer Prize juror, who swung the 1920 play award to Newcomer Eugene O'Neill's Beyond the Horizon; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...State Department cleared the speech? Acting Secretary of State Will Clayton, no top policymaker, had read it and had voiced a protest to the presidential Press Secretary, Charlie Ross. Had Ross carried that protest to Mr. Truman? Charlie Ross ducked out of sight...
Acting Secretary of State Will Clayton tried hard to quench the flames. Yugoslavia, he pointed out, had tentatively agreed to pay indemnities to the families of the dead airmen. (Probable amount: between $300,000 and $400,000.) U.S. indemnity for the planes was still being discussed. Cautiously he skirted another, more compelling issue. To the suggestions that relief to Yugoslavia be stopped, he replied that that was a matter for UNRRA to decide; a U.S. embargo would be a violation of an international commitment, in which the U.S. is bound by the decisions of a nine-nation UNRRA central committee...
...Vito Marcantonio, the most vocal Communist-line member of Congress, and left-wing Congressman Adam Clayton Powell (husband of boogie-woogie Pianist Hazel Scott) had won not only the Democratic and American Labor Party primaries, but the Republican as well...