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...thought in mind: to pry a promise of dominion status for Burma out of the British Government. But he got small change out of Winston Churchill, Secretary of State for India & for Burma Leopold Amery, and the rest of British officialdom. Churchill, said U Saw, was "very blunt," adding that he himself had been very blunt in return. As the ultra-nationalist Premier left Britain for Burma, via the U.S., he remarked Delphically that the Japanese were very clever people and that "we would rather trust the devil we know than the devil...
...will undoubtedly think I am blunt and maybe a little excited, but a few true words won't hurt you much and they may possibly do some good...
...Seaman's Bible. So when Edmund M. Blunt, just beginning his career as No. 1 U.S. publisher of nautical books, asked him to revise Moore, Bowditch said yes. By the time Bowditch finished, there was little left of Moore's book but its title. Bowditch revised most of Moore in his cabin: "The sounds of the moving ship provided a musical background for the slow and tedious work of preparing a guide for other ships." Carefully, he kept a record of every error he found in Moore, then added them up. There were more than 8,000. "When...
Then he let go: eloquence, blunt, polished and effective as an old knobkerrie, the growling, galling scorn for his enemies, the passages of noble purple for his friends. Between bursts of applause in which Supreme Court Justices and diplomats joined as lustily as doormen, the galleries wondered whether ever before had such a moving and eloquent speech been made on the Senate floor. Actually it was not so much the speech as the personality that put it over...
With most of the world as war-swept as China, foreign relations now consist chiefly of military councils and conferences. For such councils smooth-speaking diplomats are not as much needed as blunt, hard-hitting men of affairs. Such a man is T. V. Soong, whose reputation as a tough guy is a fable from Singapore to Vladivostok. T. V. also had the advantage of being in Washington, where the most important war councils were taking place...