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...secrecy which surrounds the Bretton Woods conference, but I can say that in my opinion no agreement for an international monetary fund on the terms [proposed] will be ap proved either by the Senate or the House." On the first count, Senator Taft must have been too busy to inform himself...
...Ambassador Walter Thurston acted quickly, made a formal call on Martinez. Asked the Ambassador coldly: "What can I inform my Government?" "I lament," replied the Dictator. "I shall inform my Government," said Thurston, "that you lament." Reports of this move convinced the Salvadorian people that the U.S. stood at their side, corrected the bad impression the Ambassador made during an earlier, unsuccessful military revolt by refusing to give asylum to enemies of Martinez...
Said John Bricker: "Is that the kind of leadership which is indispensable for keeping America's position of leadership in the world order? War in the Pacific might not have occurred if the American people had been informed of the Japanese menace and we had been prepared. I say to you that ignorance of the Administration, or its failure to inform the public, whichever it was, is one of the gravest derelictions in all our history...
...categoric correctitude, Russia's Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov called in the foreign press. He wanted the world to know: 1) that the Red Army had gone beyond Soviet frontiers for the first time since the Germans attacked in June 1941; 2) that the Kremlin had taken pains to inform London and Washington of the step in advance...
Whenever I tried to inform some self-named realist of our tremendous resources, he'd thrust out his bay window (substitute for brains) and ask for "statistics, little lady, statistics" - you know...