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Jimmy Byrnes gave Truman a fast fill-in on the Russians, their reluctance to broaden the Polish Government on Yalta lines, and their decision to send a second-rate delegation to San Francisco. Forthwith, through regular State Department channels, President Truman sent a meaningful message to Stalin...
...coming of Foreign Secretary Molotov to the conference would be welcomed as an expression of earnest cooperation. . . . The President would look forward with pleasure to a visit by Mr. Molotov to Washington. .. ." Forthwith, Stalin ordered Foreign Commissar Molotov to Washington and San Francisco. Stalin, believing all along that the major decisions on the new world organization had already been made, probably attached no more importance to the conference than he had before. But he was undoubtedly curious about the new man in the White House...
...Imperious, 95-year-old Field Marshal August von Mackensen, currently a country squire, who forthwith ordered his captors to "save his chickens" from liberated Russians...
...Shipbuilder Henry J. Kaiser sat down before the Senate's Small Business Committee. Said he, with no preliminary hems & haws: Congress had not yet set a decisive policy governing the disposal of over $15 billion in Government-owned war plants; it is high time Congress did. Forthwith, Mr. Kaiser laid down what he thought that policy should be. The key point: the Government should sell the plants with the primary aim of creating jobs rather than wringing out the last possible dollar for itself...
...solution of the Communist question must be through political means. . . . The latest demand of the Communists is that the Government should forthwith liquidate the Kuomintang rule, and surrender all power to a coalition of various parties. The Government is ready to admit other parties, including the Communists ... to participate in the Government, without, however, relinquishment by the Kuomintang of its power of ultimate decision and final responsibility until the convocation of the National Assembly...