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Congress' inclination was to let 'er go and wipe out almost all controls. The people had screamed when the House emasculated OPA; but House members went home for recess and did not change their minds. An even sharper bill, taking the lid off almost everything, passed the Senate last week by an overwhelming majority...
...through the Foreign Ministers' conference Jimmy Byrnes had set the pace. When the bruises from the same old obstacles round the same old course became too painfully familiar last week, he urged a recess to June 15. His equally battered colleagues agreed. Next day, as the adjournment meeting droned to a close, Byrnes made another move. "Gentlemen," he said, "I propose we go to the bar." Replied Viacheslav Molotov: "It will be the only proposal of the conference which was immediately and unanimously adopted...
Byrnes's forceful radio report to the U.S. people this week said that if that if the Four did not agree after their recess to summon the 21-nation peace conference by "July 1 or July 15," the U.S. would submit the whole question of the peace treaties to the 51 nations of the U.N. General Assembly. "We must take the offensive for peace," he added. "There is no iron curtain that the aggregate sentiments of mankind cannot penetrate." In this speech, and in his attitude at Paris, Byrnes ably and clearly demonstrated the Western Powers' determination...
...House, back from recess...
...twelve-day recess, stayed at home to mend election-year fences...