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...Banquet the British. Leeming's first-and last-action as a belligerent in World War II was to throw ?250,000 (then about $1,000,000) into the Mediterranean Sea one day in 1940. A few moments later, the R.A.F. payroll plane in which he was a passenger crashed in Sicily, and Leeming was made prisoner along with the late Air Marshal Owen Tudor Boyd...
...kept company with air marshals, but he gives the main credit for his gracious treatment to the superb natural manners of the Italian people, who, says Leeming, liked the British almost as much as they disliked the Germans. The first action of the Italians was to give a small banquet in honor of their prisoners. Boyd and Leeming were then installed in a large mansion in Catania. Distressed by their bad luck in being captured, the commanding general took them for an occasional cheering spin through the vicinity in his car. At their next place of detention, a villa near...
...meeting had just begun when 20 hoodlums broke into the banquet room, upset tables, heaved chairs and flower pots, and beat up two elderly scholars. On their heels came Rhee's uniformed police, who made a great show of arresting four of the rioters, but also arrested at least one of the rioters' victims. "We don't know who they are," said Rhee's propaganda directors blandly of the troublemaking goon squad. But an American who saw the show recognized one of the gang's leaders as a member of the rough, tough police force...
...chain. Manning volunteered to take a lifeboat with seven men across a quarter-mile of raging, ice-strewn seas to rescue the Italian crew. The 32 men were saved. On his return to New York, he was given a hero's welcome, a ticker-tape parade and a banquet...
Before the flash and smoke of the charge was gone, Truman rose before a Jewish National Fund banquet and threw the switch on members of Congress who voted to cut military and foreign-aid expenditures. "There are some people who would rather play politics than have strong defenses," he said. "They would rather embarrass the White House than checkmate the Kremlin...