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This week an assortment of Forrestal's dictated memoranda, calendar notes and letters were bundled together and published as The Forrestal Diaries (Viking, $5). The title is actually a misnomer, because Forrestal's notations were largely his personal reminders about people and events and rarely reported on his...
Fragmentary as they are, however, the Diaries add new insight to the character of the tough, purposeful Government servant whom Washington remembers-the middleweight of the broken nose, the level gaze, the straight-lined lips and few words. James Forrestal was a man whose mind never put down the burden...
On Russia. In 1945 Forrestal noted happily that Harry Truman had grasped the point that the Russians despise concession as weakness. After Secretary of State Jimmy Byrnes had left office, he confided to Forrestal that Stalin did not like Truman personally. Observed Forrestal: "Mr. Truman was the first one who...
But in the tensing years of the cold war, Forrestal found that Harry Truman would talk tough at the right times, but was uninterested in working out a hardheaded plan for pursuing the cold war. When the Russians tried to drive the allies out of Berlin with the 1948 blockade...
When the Forrestal statement was printed last week in the newspapers, Wallace published a scorching denial. "This is a lie," he wrote. "I said under oath [in testimony to the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1950] that there was a leaking liar in the Cabinet and the President...