The dead dictator's luxurious
train rolled from Berlin across the old, beaten land. In Hitler's bed
slept James F. Byrnes, of Charleston, S.C. His advisor, Benjamin V.
Cohen of Muncie, Ind., slept in Göring's bed, restlessly. The train
rolled into Stuttgart's bomb-wrecked station and Byrnes got off to ride
behind an escort of screeching U.S. Army jeeps to the Staatstheater.
There, watched by U.S. generals and diplomats, German functionaries and
civilians, Russian and other newspapermen, Byrnes delivered the speech
which Europe and Asia recognized as America's boldest move...
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