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...anniversary, Prime Minister Attlee and President Truman sent greetings to the Russian people, who well deserved them. With a courage that the world would never forget they had survived the power grab of Clausewitz' disciples from the military colleges and beer halls of Germany. With luck, some of them might even survive what was let loose 30 years ago when a potbellied disciple of Clausewitz came out from behind the bookstacks...
Eban declared that a "smash and grab" partition would result in the Holy Land after the withdrawal of British troops if the U.N. did not set up the mechanism for peaceful partition. He added, "It is to be hoped that the U.N. will prefer a peaceful solution to certain chaos...
...already being fought. . . . We are losing it. ... When the Communists are ready . . . there will be 50 Pearl Harbors . . . atomic explosions erasing our cities. . . . The Communists have germ warfare already. . . . The cholera plague in Egypt is suspected abroad of being a Soviet experiment.*. . . The next countries [the Russians] intend to grab are Italy and France. . . . They need France as a base to attack Great Britain, . . . American diplomats inside the curtain are under Russian guard day & night. . . . Trained Communist spies are among us locating targets for the sneak attack. . . . We must start rearming...
...Editor smiles and says he will fix that. And he does. He gets me a grey pin-striped suit, double-breasted, with shoulders that I can grab in my fist and make look like a football. The Editor doesn't forget anything. He finds me a tie that leaves me as flat as warm beer, and then insists I put a ruptured duck in the lapel of the suit, and find a shirt that isn't button-down. The hat I wear looks like something out of the Front Page...
...room is okay at the Hanover Inn, and the first thing we decide to do is go over and see the boys at the Daily Dartmouth. This is a tricky moment, and I wonder when they grab us right off, how we going to let our friends at Harvard know we are prisoners, so they can come rescue...