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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...
Said London's conservative Daily Telegraph editorially (after quoting Wallace on the necessity of convincing Russia that the Americans are not out to save the British Empire): "Bees in bonnets have seldom buzzed louder. To the British reader, who may well be bewildered at such language from a minister of the power with which we have the closest relations at the present time, it is worth explaining that Mr. Wallace is notoriously emotional and notoriously independent of many of his colleagues...
Brer Rabbit, sezee. "Kaze if you is, I kin holler louder," sezee. Tar-Baby stay still, en Brer...
Charges of graft involving Schmitz, Boss Abe Reuf, the Southern Pacific Co.'s subsidiary United Railways (precursor of the Market St. Railway) grew so loud that even tolerant San Franciscans were aroused. The only reason they did not act immediately was because of a louder noise. The earth moved. The city tumbled down in dust and fire. When San Franciscans, recovering from the earthquake, found time, they clapped Reuf in jail...
Perhaps even louder were the reactions from the would-be strikers. At week's end, Bridges and Curran-who follow the Communist line more often than not-fired a telegram to the World Federation of Trade Unions in Paris, asking that longshoremen in all world ports refuse to unload U.S. Government-operated ships-except troop and relief ships cleared by the C.M.U. In New York, N.M.U. Port Agent Joe Stack sounded the battle cry: "President Truman will break the strike over our dead bodies...