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Tinker's Dam. Had 1946 ended as it began, Molotov would have been the year's man. He rode the postwar Russian flood, whipping it with a hard wind of propaganda. It welled up to the Persian plateau 22 miles from Teheran; it seeped deeply into China, licked at Tripolitania, reached for the Dardanelles, almost engulfed Trieste, soaked Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Rumania, Yugoslavia, threatened Germany, Austria, and even (through Russia's Communist Parties) Italy and France...
Before the year was out, however, the Russian flood was contained. On the dam that held it many men had labored- Bevin and Bidault, General Lucius Clay in Germany, Mark Clark in Austria, The Netherlands' Eelco van Kleffens and Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak in U.N., Mac-Arthur in Japan, Chiang Kai-shek in China, and, eminently, Senator Arthur Vandenberg in the U.S. But the dam's chief builder was James F. Byrnes of Spartanburg, S.C., who became the firm and patient voice of the U.S. in the councils of the world...
...that the U.S. had planted the weight of its power in the path of the Russian advance. What Jimmy said about Trieste and freedom of the Danube had its effect on bigger issues, such as the Russian bid for control of Germany and the Dardanelles. Tinker Jimmy's dam was a jerry-built improvisation-but, for the moment, it held. The U.S. and the world looking back on 1946 might well and gratefully remember Jimmy Byrnes when many a bigger man had been forgotten...
...East, over much of Europe, the whole Far East and parts of Latin America. On its solution depended not only the U.S. world position, but also the lasting peace which the world sought so feverishly in 1946. That job was one for future years; if Tinker Jimmy's dam held long enough, the U.S. would seek in better years bigger men than Jimmy for a bigger task...
Some of the projects on Orive Alba's calendar are called Mexican TVAs. One will dam the picturesque Papaloapan River near Veracruz, another will use the waters of the Rio del Fuerte, near the Gulf of California, in northwest Mexico. A third project: a joint U.S.-Mexican scheme to use waters from the Rio Bravo (Rio Grande) to irrigate 500,000 acres on each side of the river and generate 200 million kilowatts for joint use. Of the three dams to be built, the first alone will cost more than $35,000,000, of which the U.S. will...