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...fourth day, the elevator brought Mohamed AH Jinnah, leader of India's Moslems and the most dangerous threat to Indian unity. He had repeatedly threatened that unless the Moslems were granted the separate state of Pakistan and complete independence from India's Hindu majority, he would sabotage all further negotiations, even if it meant civil war. After a three-hour conference, Jinnah was wan and grim, but he forced a tight-lipped smile for the photographers...
...would think he was a farmer who had come to the village to sell his produce. One of his favorite jokes on meeting a person is to say, "What a lovely neck." I will never forget the shudder that went over me when he told me: "Ah, you are a large man, you would drop nicely." He told me one time that he was taught the trade by his father, who hanged himself when he became too old to enjoy life, and that he [Pierrepoint] would some day do the same himself...
General Hideki Tojo got a language lesson while awaiting trial. When the lesson was over the ex-Premier knew just about as much as anybody else. Just what did "Hubba, hubba" mean, he asked a visitor from the American prosecution staff. " 'Hurry up,' " obliged the visitor. "Ah, so," murmured Tojo, "... I always thought it meant 'Remember Pearl Harbor...
...Ah! your head, reader? What recent gains in sensibility have you to register? Do you read or think as much as you used to? You are aware no doubt that your consumption of tobacco and alcohol has practically doubled . . . you will plank down three quid for a bottle of Scotch, you can't be trusted with a railway towel or a piece of hotel soap . . . and [you] write to the Times against Picasso; you're more antiSemitic, even, than before...
...good chess player makes the smallest move count. Last week Pope Pius XII chose the seventh anniversary of his coronation to throw a well-timed spotlight on an important new red hat. The hat belongs to soft-voiced, fierce-bearded Gregory Peter XV Agagianian (pronounced ah-gah-jahn-yan), Patriarch-Catholicos of Cilicia of the Armenians, who stayed over in Rome at the Pope's request to celebrate Solemn Pontifical Mass in the Sistine Chapel...