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...President, a sentimental man, enjoyed the holidays. He ate turkey, went out on the front porch of the "little White House" at Independence, Mo. to greet the carolers, bought his 93-year-old mother "the usual sort of thing a fellow buys." He granted full pardons to all the several thousand ex-convicts who served honorably in World War II's Army and Navy. Once he had the rare luxury of sleeping late-for him: until...
...Prime Minister rose to greet his guest. He carried his 71 years lightly. His voice was firm, his hands steady, his face and fingers just perceptibly wrinkled. He walked toward the grate to give the fire some encouragement. Swiftly he moved the screen aside, thrust the poker into the coals, put on a thick glove and tossed a fresh chunk of coal squarely into the center of the fire. He made these casual, hostly gestures with neatness and dispatch. But as he was settling again in the deep sofa, something disturbed the Prime Minister. He hopped up, shifted the fire...
...unrecounted millions of Europeans who survived him, few could greet the season with anything of its own tenderness. It was the first autumn of liberation, the first since the end of the war. It was the first autumn of the atomic...
First on board to greet Mackenzie King were Britain's black-hatted, dapper Deputy Under Secretary for the Dominions Sir John Stephenson, and tall Frederic Hudd, Canada's Acting High Commissioner in Britain. Behind them came Southampton civic dignitaries, led by the wife of the city's ailing Lord Mayor, Job Charles Dyas. Primly the Lady Mayoress recited a prepared speech of thanks for clothing that Canada had sent to the city during the blitz...
This time Charles de Gaulle was smiling, cordial, no longer unbending. His mission was obvious: to regain U.S. affection for France. He stepped out of the big, silvery Avro York plane jauntily, moved rapidly through the line of stiff-standing French officers to greet Secretary of State James Francis Byrnes. Then he walked to a microphone. The General's English was slow, but he had brushed up his vocabulary...