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...Zealand's blunt, able Sir Carl Berendsen is a great & good friend of the United Nations, an organization he helped to found, but his friendship does not blind him to its drawbacks-its intrigue, its financial irresponsibility (the way delegates like to travel at someone else's expense), or its futility. Last week, having quit after six years as New Zealand's chief delegate, Sir Carl got his opinions off his chest at a meeting of the U.N. association back home in Wellington...
...said: "Say, you did a swell job!" To a young man introduced as a veteran, Ike gave the big grip and shouted above the din: "You look like a damn soldier." To an lowan delegate who wanted to know if he was a me-too candidate, Ike was blunt: "If they say I'm me-tooing just because I want to keep the good things that have been done in the last 20 years while I'm throwing out the bad things-if that's me-too, why they can go to hell...
...Alfred W. F. Blunt, Bishop of Bradford
When the Senators asked if the President could rightfully seize the oil or the rubber industry, McGranery first said no, then started qualifying, "Under extreme emergencies, the President has all power . . ." Muttered one of his questioners: "Hold on to your hats, boys, here we go again." It took another blunt McCarran warning before McGranery was finally pinned down to a flat no: the President does not have the power to seize industries. "You know and I know," he added brightly, "that you cannot take private property and maintain the American way of life. We fought too hard for those things...
...specific laws. As to those without authority of statute, "it is difficult to follow [the] argument that several prior acts apparently unauthorized by law, but never questioned by the courts, by repetition clothe a later unauthorized act with the cloak of legality ... I disagree." Then, in a series of blunt paragraphs, Judge Pine rejected the Administration's whole philosophy of government by expediency. Wrote Pine...