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...Secretary of State Byrnes, he was shocked and angered-and with good reason. Thanks to his stand in Paris, capped by his Stuttgart speech (TIME, Sept. 16), he had almost begun to persuade the world that such a thing as a U.S. foreign policy exists, and that it is beginning to be both clear and firm: 1) play a strong hand in Europe, 2) check the spread of Russia's totalitarian ideology in Europe and Asia. And now a fellow Cabinet officer, apparently backed by the President, had blown the gaff: there was no U.S. foreign policy after...
...dead dictator's luxurious train rolled from Berlin across the old, beaten land. In Hitler's bed slept James F. Byrnes, of Charleston, S.C. His advisor, Benjamin V. Cohen of Muncie, Ind., slept in Göring's bed, restlessly. The train rolled into Stuttgart's bomb-wrecked station and Byrnes got off to ride behind an escort of screeching U.S. Army jeeps to the Staatstheater. There, watched by U.S. generals and diplomats, German functionaries and civilians, Russian and other newspapermen, Byrnes delivered the speech which Europe and Asia recognized as America's boldest move...
...moved from the Paris Peace Conference, its stale yammering, its endless skirmishes around the periphery of political war, into Germany. Byrnes's journey to Stuttgart was a move into the heartland. Germany, in the end, would be the great strategic battlefield. There the U.S. now stood, inviting Germans to stand on Western democracy's side...
Mercy Plea. Niemoller joined Lutheran Bishop Theophil Wurm of Stuttgart and other Germans in pleading mercy for his country. The delegates agreed with their German colleagues that the Allies' Potsdam declaration had not been carried out. Then they passed resolutions, significantly read to the press by the Archbishop of Canterbury, protesting...
...Into the rooms swarmed 1,500 former captives, all of them hell-bent for a do. Among them were veterans of the fall of Hong Kong, wearing a gold "H.K." on a circular red patch; survivors of Dieppe; scores of airmen shot down over Hamburg, Berlin, Leipzig, Magdeburg and Stuttgart. Some of the celebrants had been flown in by a former R.C.A.F. flying instructor named Ross C. ("Bill") Shepherd, who offered to fly amputation cases to the party on a free shuttle service. (He was overwhelmed with applications from veterans who wanted to go and by plain citizens who wanted...