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Shanghai is the biggest city a Communist regime has ever tried to digest. It has also proved the most indigestible. Tough, resilient, raised on the vigorous traditions of free enterprise, Shanghailanders made little effort to conceal their contempt when Mao Tse-tung's troops entered in 1949, chuckled with sophisticated delight at such jokes as the story of a young officer fresh from the caves of Yenan who washed the dust from his rice ration in a hotel toilet bowl. "Just wait and see," went a confident Shanghai refrain. "We'll change the Communists...
...spite of your repeated assurances that Egypt's Nasser is handsome, dashing and "carries his 200 Ibs. with lithe grace," and your remarkable statement that he is the only one who can prevent "massed retaliation" against the Israeli "aggressors," you can hardly conceal the fact that this military dictator and self-anointed "liberator" of the fatherland is now definitely on the skids . . . Since he can't cope with the trouble within Egypt's borders, he is stirring up trouble beyond the borders . . . This is the traditional method of dictators, and of those in the Middle East...
Felix's education began some early day in the perpetual childhood that was to be his life. It was then that he delighted to muse to himself, "I (can) not conceal from myself that I am made of superior stuff or, as people say, of finer clay." From this time on his life consisted of varying attempts to prove and demonstrate this thesis. His education consisted in learning new techniques for these attempts...
...underlying it all was a chill that cordiality could not conceal: a steely and unsentimental confrontation of men, of countries, of codes that were antipathetic to each other. At one point, Khrushchev, essaying a small compliment, remarked that much liberated German wine had reached Russia since the war, and that he had come to like it. "Come visit me, my friend," said Adenauer slowly, "and I will show you that guest wine is much better than liberated wine...
...course, a grim, ironic joke in Russia that the vast hinterland conceals numberless prison camps, slave-labor projects, and an abysmally low standard of living among all but party people. These were experts in that kind of concealment, and they laughed appreciatively at Bulganin's easy reference to the "vast territories in which, if desired, one can conceal anything." But it was a guffaw all too reminiscent of Vishinsky's famous blunder ("I could hardly sleep all last night . . . because I kept laughing," said Vishinsky of U.S. peace proposals in 1951). Newsmen spread the story across the world...