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...Harry Truman replied that he would be glad to deny all the rumors-but no letter. That was not good enough for sensitive Henry Morgenthau. In that case, the President told him, his resignation would be accepted immediately. There was no outward bitterness; the exchange of letters was cordial...
...stipulations . . . cannot be considered . . . fulfilled until ... the Argentine people have received the opportunity to elect a government of their choice. Until this has been done it may be expected that relations between the United States and Argentina will never be cordial, however correct they...
Spanish hospitality was less than cordial. General Francisco Franco had undertaken to keep war criminals out of Spain, was in no mood to exasperate the Allies. Instead of going to the swanky Ritz Hotel, where a suite once occupied by the Duke of Windsor and Heinrich Himmler had been reserved for him, Laval was hustled into forbidding Montjuich, the stone fortress which looms over Barcelona. Into a massive cell (whose rigors were later softened by a spring bed and furniture from the Ritz) moved the unwelcome Frenchman. At his request a radio was installed. The first news he heard...
John D. Rockefeller. John D. Rockefeller Sr. was "still a dapper, youngish man with cordial American manners," when Santayana watched Queen Victoria's Jubilee procession with him. But when Santayana visited his friend Charles Augustus Strong (a Rockefeller son-in-law) at Rockefeller's house in Lakewood, N.J., the tycoon had aged, lost his hair, eyebrows and eyelashes, and wore a pepper & salt wig decidedly too small for him. Rockefeller asked him the population of Spain. When Santayana replied 19 million, the old man said thoughtfully, "I must tell them at the office that they...
...eagerness to be cordial to the Frenchmen, sleepy little Orangeburg also has run into minor misunderstandings. When a local girl told a Frenchman she slept in the same bed with her roommate, his eyebrows rose; finally someone explained what a roommate is. Another gave a hopeful start when a proper young Orangeburger at a party one warm night remarked in her best high-school French: "Je suis chaud" (literally, "I am warm," idiomatically, "I'm feeling sexy...