James F. Byrnes, U.S. Secretary of State, July 3, 1945 to January 21, 1947. U.S. Dept. of State. Several days after the U.S. dropped a second atomic bomb on Japan, Secretary of State James Byrnes ...
Allied forces are trying to negotiate the surrender of Basra, a British military spokesman said today. But fighting was still intensifying around Iraq's second city. The fighting followed a night ...