Word: dunn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...idea for this kind of peace conference, staged without pomp and with strictly limited membership, was an American idea. It was suggested at San Francisco by Assistant Secretary of State James C. Dunn, a State Department career man for 25 years. The suggestion was approved by President Truman, sold by him to Stalin and Attlee at Potsdam. It was eagerly snapped up by Secretary of State James Francis Byrnes, who knew instinctively that he would be thoroughly at home at a meeting where a few men could talk plainly behind closed doors. It was exactly what he had done...
...London. Another even more important change was apparently in the offing. At a Washington press conference last week, Jimmy Byrnes went out of his way to praise Assistant Secretary James Clement Dunn...
Newsmen were puzzled at first. Then rumor said that Jimmy Byrnes would take Jimmy Dunn with him to the forthcoming Council of Foreign Ministers meeting in London, and leave him there as the permanent U.S. deputy on the Council. As such, Jimmy Dunn would in effect be the U.S. Under Secretary of State abroad, and a super-Ambassador...
...State Department has been more unmercifully attacked by the liberal-left wing press than Jimmy Dunn. (Reputedly, he had a big hand in the pro-Franco and pro-Vichy appeasement policies of the early war years.) But Jimmy Dunn is also a shy, aloof, painstaking worker who knows State Department doings inside out. He started as a clerk 26 years ago, married an Armour, lives fashionably on Massachusetts Avenue...
Military Objective. In Dunn, N.C., the Dispatch received an ad: "Young soldier with four and a half years of duty would like to meet a young widow with three children. Object: 85 points...