Word: chess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conference table that day, Molotov had asked McNeil through an interpreter if he was prepared for a long session. "There are two things we Scots have in common with you Russians," McNeil replied. "We get better as the night grows longer, and we like to drink with our chess...
After the long meeting (ten hours) had been adjourned, and after McNeil's strong talk, Molotov sent his interpreter to ask McNeil: "Are you going to drink with your chess now?" "No," said McNeil, "just drink...
...Almost Appalling." If McNeil did have a nightcap after that session, it was likely his native Scotch, with two dashes of water and no ice. As for chess, he says in Who's Who that it and "intelligent argument" are his favorite hobbies...
...clothes stood out in Paris: at a full-blown gala at the Opera he was the only man wearing a business suit. In Geneva, begloved and Homburg-hatted city fathers who greeted him at the airport found him in the shade of a cowboy hat. But playing chess with Tito in Yugoslavia he was the picture of conservative correctness-though, sitting there in long, profound silence, he was not the picture of LaGuardia...
...Communists, either. He meets an Italian in San Fernando who talks like a Communist. "I knew Trotsky in Vienna," Farkas tells him; "I didn't like his accent and the way he played chess. I regard Communists with the same suspicion as Jesuits." Farkas laughs, takes off his monocle and wipes it with his silk handkerchief. The Italian seems to be a friendly, good-humored fellow. All Farkas wants is the friendly, good-humored world he has always known. The Italian reminds him that such a world no longer exists, that for some people it never existed. Farkas shrugs...