PRIVATE TALKS
PRESIDENT AND MR. BYRNES DIPLOMATIC ACTIVITY (Rec. 1 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Sept. 19. President Truman and Mr. J. F. Byrnes, U.S. Secretary for State, conversed for 20 minutes to-day by teletype between Washington and Paris. " This was Mr. Byrnes’s first direct communication with the President since Mr. Wallace’s much-discussed speech on September 12. The President’s secretary, Mr. Ross, declined to give details of the conversation or to say whether the exchange was cordial or strained. President Truman tried to telephone Mr. Byrnes, but atmospherics were too bad. Referring to reports that Mr. Truman made a deal with Mr. Wallace, in return for silence on foreign affairs during the Paris conference, Mr. Ross said that such reports were absolutely untrue. He added: “There was no deal. I say that from firsthand knowledge.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 20 September 1946, Page 7
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