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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Oct. 19, 1955.
Truman Memoirs Explain Why Byrnes Was Fired
WASHINGTON —(U.P.)— Former President Truman, in the second installment of his memoirs, said that former Secretary of State James F. Byrnes took it upon himself to move the foreign policy of the United States in a direction with which the President could not agree.
Mr. Byrnes, Mr. Truman said, kept him "in the dark" about the surveillance cooperation and was, in effect, assuming the responsibilities of the President.
judgment was better than the President's." Mr. Truman said.
Mr. Byrnes attempted to negotiate with the Russians on his own initiative and came to think "his
The former Secretary of State said in Columbia, S.C., that he would have no comment on the former President's criticism at this time. He said he may later comment on the critical days about which Mr. Truman had written and about Mr. Byrne's role as secretary.
Bendin-Scenes Unines
In the later instates of his memoir, Mr. Truman in *Life magazine*, Mr. Truman discussed details of the behind-the-scenes clashes which led to the resignation from his first cabinet of Mr.
Byrnes, Secretary of Commerce Henry A. Wallace and Secretary of Interior Harold Ickes.
Mr. Truman said his troubles with Mr. Byrnes stemmed from the fact that President Roosevelt had given the South Carolinian such unprecedented freedom of action during the war years that Mr. Byrnes came to "believe that he could have a completely free hand within his own sphere of duty."
"A Secretary of State should never have the illusion that he is President of the United States," Mr. Truman added.
of the President," Mr. Truman said. AIG Members Distributed
The conference of foreign ministers at Moscow in December, 1945, "produced a situation which made it necessary for me to make it plain to Mr. Byrnes that he was not carrying out the foreign policy I had laid down and that, in effect, he was assuming the responsibilities
AEC Members Disturbed
Members of the Senate Atomic Energy Commission were disturbed by certain remarks Mr. Byrnes had made and "had gotten the impression from him that he would discuss, and perhaps agree to, the turnover of certain atomic energy information even before there had been any agreement on safeguards and inspections against the abuse of such information," Mr. Truman said.
The former President said he assured the senators that such was not the case and told Undersecretary of State Dean Acheson to make it plain to Mr. Byrnes that he was not to disclose any atomic information during the conference. Mr. Truman said on Dec. 27 he was informed that the secretary
had asked that the White House arrange a four-network broadcast for him to report to the American people on the results of the Moscow conference, results of which Mr. Byrnes had yet to report to the President.
Byrnes Reprimanded
As soon as Byrnes returned to the capital Mr. Truman told him "that I did not like the way in which I had been left in the dark about the Moscow conference. I said that it was shocking. I said I would not tolerate a repetition of such conduct."
Roofe At Medical Meetings
Mr. Truman said Mr. Byrnes replied that he had entrusted to subordinates the job of keeping the President informed and admitted that he should have taken care of it himself. Mr. Truman eventually replaced Mr. Byrnes with Gen. George C. Marshall.
Dr. Paul G. Roofe, chairman of the anatomy department, is an invited participant in several medical meetings in the East this month.
Dr. Roofe is now at a five-day conference in Swampscott, Mass., on problems facing medical schools in teaching anatomy, recruiting teachers and promoting research. Dr. Roofe helped set up the institute and is one of the leaders and discussion leaders. Seventy-nine medical schools in the United States and 10 in Canada are represented. Dr. Roofo also will be a guest at the dean's meeting of the Association of American Medical Colleges.
Next week he will go to Washington, D.C., to represent KU at the annual meeting of the Armed Forces Medical Library in Bethesda, Md. He also will visit the Carnegie Institute of Embryology to help prepare a human embryo for study. The embryo, approximately 3/25th of an inch long, is among the smallest on record, and was obtained this summer through a physician at Cedar Vale.
Education Conference Opens In Topeka
More than 1,000 species of trees grow in commercial forest lands in the United States, but most of the nation's lumber needs are supplied by about 35 species.
TOPEKA — (U.P.)— Kansas' statewide conference on education, a prelude to the White House education conference in Washington next month, opens here tomorrow. Among the reports to be discussed is one issued by the University of Wichita, which lambets the lack of a centralized, continuous evaluation of Kansas schools. The report recommends that a State Director of Research be named to work in the office of the Kansas Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Yellowknife, in Canada's District of Mackenzie, is a booming gold mining town in the midst of one of the world's largest remaining empty quarters. Its 3,300 inhabitants are surrounded by 1,250,-000 square miles settled by only 13,300 people.
Research psychologists say their ideal type of prospective Air Force or Navy pilot is a youngster from a large family who enjoys bodily contact sports, builds and drives "hot rods," likes all kinds of people, believes in some religion, and is daring but not foolhardy.
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