Word: chats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back in his native Denmark, Captain Kurt Carlsen went aboard the royal yacht Dannebrog for a half-hour chat with King Frederik IX. Commented Carlsen: "It was a simple meeting between two sailors...
Visiting Koje Island, he found that Brigadier General "Bull" Boatner had done an able job of restoring order to the prisoner-of-war camp. Calling on Syngman Rhee with British Minister of State Selwyn Lloyd, Alexander had what he called "a very friendly chat." Actually, Alexander and Lloyd were plain distressed by Rhee's highhandedness, but, reporting back to the British Foreign Office, Lloyd reluctantly conceded: "Rhee is clearly most astute and, in spite of his age, is head and shoulders above any of his compatriots whom I have...
Between delegates' visits, Eisenhower found time to have his eyes examined, chat with an old West Point gym trainer, meet the trustees of Columbia University (they extended his leave as president indefinitely) and talk to Republican Statesman John Foster Dulles. Dulles' aim, he said, is a foreign policy plank both Ike and Taft can agree on. Asked whether he was for Ike, Dulles smiled and said: "I haven't made any public decision." Asked if he thought the two factions could agree, Dulles made a somewhat circular pronouncement: "If they do not agree, the party will...
...been "in error" when he recently proposed a time-limit ultimatum to the Communists in Korea. He explained that he had been enlightened by General Ridgway's report that the United Nations lacked the strength to make it stick. Another possible explanation: Kefauver's recent chat with Harry Truman. Two days later he headed back to the hustings in his chartered Lockheed Lodestar, catching badly needed catnaps aloft with the aid of a sleeping mask. He invaded pro-Russell North Carolina for some folksy talk about daughter Linda's troubles with the mumps. Then he boarded...
Much of Conant's energy has been devoted to an administrative liberation of the University's departments. When he first came into office President Emeritus Lowell would drop in for a friendly chat every once in a while to see how his youthful successor was coming along. On one of these visits Lowell, using his most sonorous Bostonian tone, proclaimed, "As president you will be surrounded on all sides by wolves trying to tear off bits of the University. It is the first duty of the president to resist pressure...