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...meetings ground on, only meager press releases were issued, containing perfunctory information. For the conference itself was secret, and delegates were forbidden to grant interviews. But Cordell Hull promised a full account at the conference's end-probably in three or four weeks...
...Generalissimo had heard before about the evils of China's conscription system. Only last spring he had forbidden the roping of conscripts. Now he questioned the roped men. One man said he was a peddler. He had been doing business along the road. An armed gang had pounced on him. Now he was conscripted...
...Field Marshal Busch told me that Hitler had forbidden any retreat and ordered that every foot of ground be defended. Although in my opinion this order was erroneous, I was compelled to obey...
Stalin does not permit that. Like other top air commanders, Novikov is forbidden to take battle risks...
...second was at the high, lovely, remote, forbidden city of Chandrapore in Central India, where "the spires of the Jain temples pierced up through the grey and white mists. . . ." There the tiny, fantastic, incompetent Maharajah put on religious festivals for them ("Tell me, Mr. Dickinson, where is God?"), talked English literature ("See, Mr. Dickinson, that balcony - did Hamlet climb up there to visit Juliet?") and gave Mr. Dickinson his palace. Says Forster: "He forgot that he had given it to me only two days before...