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Reischauer agreed that recent hush-hush talks between political leaders of South Korea, Nationalist China and Japan may well foreshadow an Asian economic pact. Also included might be Siam, Burma, Indonesia, India, Pakistan, and the Philippines, he indicated...
...scraped into World War I as a subaltern at the age of 18, made the retreat from the Somme. In 1919 he was part of a hush-hush force in the Caspian Sea area which helped defend the White Russian fleet from Bolshevik attack: "All pretty unsatisfactory from a political point of view, though great fun for a young officer." Now he likes to say that he is the "only senior British officer who ever fought the Russians." Between the world wars, he played polo and rode to hounds, became bayonet-fighting champion of the British army, made...
...heartless Goa," the citadel of Portugal's Asiatic colonies, he got crowds for his instructions by walking up & down the streets ringing a large bell. And when he found an audience, he held it. Writes Biographer Brodrick: "Perhaps they laughed at him to start with . . . but soon a hush would fall upon them because the love that shone in his dark bewitching eyes and burned on his stammering lips spoke to their hearts so eloquently...
...patience of a schoolboy congregation is often sorely tried. One winter three successive clergymen took as their theme the parable of the Prodigal Son. Again, three visiting clergymen in a row ended their sermons with a stereotyped quotation from Sir Henry Newbolt, beginning, 'There's a breathless hush in the close tonight,' and concluding dramatically, 'Play up! play up! and play the game! . . .' On one painful morning a clergyman of national reputation preached a sermon identical in text and argument with that used by an eminent divine the week before. A little Sherlock Holmes investigation...
...from an interrupted U.S. vacation, spent almost two hours telling Rhee in fuller detail what was on Harry Truman's mind. U.N. Secretary General Trygve Lie sent a note pleading for "strict adherence to constitutional and democratic processes." Rhee's followers became a little nervous over a hush-hush "patient" in a U.S. Army hospital, just 400 yards from the Korean Assembly hall. There, under U.S. protection, lives John Myun Chang, recently Premier of Korea and onetime Korean representative to the U.N. Chang, U.S.-educated (M.A. from New York's Manhattan College, 1926), is sometimes spoken...