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...from the inviting powers. Byrnes called this "a gratuitous insult" to China, but finally agreed to accept a draft of the invitation form previously proposed by the Russians themselves. Molotov then said that he could not now accept even his own draft. Byrnes began to get mad. He got madder when Molotov explained that he would hold up any invitation until the Big Four agreed to rules of procedure binding the 21-nation Conference...
That made the staff even madder; they scribbled out a protest direct to General Douglas MacArthur. Last week MacArthur's inspector general, Colonel E. J. Dwan, answered them. Said he: "There is abundance of evidence that reflects adversely on the 'discretion and integrity' of [Pettus and Rubin]. It is evidenced that each has held membership in the . . . Communist Party and has at times flavored his public writings with Communistic thought...
Colonel John Monroe ("Steamboat") Johnson, director of the Office of Defense Transportation, pushed his way through the milling mob jampacking the lobby of Chicago's Hotel Stevens. The farther he had to push, the madder he got; almost everyone he bumped was wearing some convention badge. Near the crowded elevators, his eye fell on the long list of conventions and meetings on the bulletin board. This was more than ODT's boss could bear. He roared: "There are more damn conventions in Chicago this week than there should be in the entire country...
Square-jawed Kent Cooper, executive director of the Associated Press, got madder & madder. For nearly two weeks the A.P. had been waiting for a sizable beat from Bari, Italy: Correspondent Joseph Morton's story of a question & answer interview-by-letter with Yugoslavia's Communist Marshal Josip Broz (Tito). But the story was squashed under the political censorship of 224-lb. General Sir Henry Maitland ("Jumbo") Wilson's Mediterranean command...
Reuters, the British news agency, was deeper in the black books of the U.S. press than it had ever been before. And that was saying something. OWI's Elmer Davis was madder than he had ever been, but apparently just as helpless...