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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gravity and sobriety that had made many of his diplomatic colleagues find him chilly. He is on a first-name basis with such key officials as Dean Acheson, John Snyder, State's Assistant Secretary Jack Hickerson. With the more intellectual U.S. policymakers, e.g., Planner George Kennan, he spends long quiet evenings, far from the distracting clink of the cocktail glasses. Although he has deliberately thawed his manner-as part of his job of thawing U.S. dollars, Franks's conversation still reflects the icy clarity of his mind...
...Central Planning and Control in War and Peace," in which he described the ideal cabinet minister as having "clarity, precision in thought . . . Only a synoptic mind can at once master the mass of necessary detail and yet keep a sharp lookout for the essential." Whitehall gossips, who have long noted Franks's ambition, believe that this passage indicates that Franks feels himself well qualified to be Prime Minister. Certainly, Oliver Franks's description of the ideal minister bears a striking resemblance to Oliver Franks...
...English against Oriental rivals. He had heaped scorn on India's backward tongues-they taught "medical doctrines which would disgrace an English farrier, astronomy which would move laughter in girls at an English boarding school, history abounding with kings 30 feet high and reigns 30,000 years long, and geography made up of seas of treacle and seas of butter . . ." He had acclaimed English as the key "to all the vast intellectual wealth which all the wisest nations of the world have created and hoarded in the course of 90 generations...
...threshold of a linguistic revolution," he said. "There is such a thing as having roots in the past and growing up into the sky above and not looking down on the soil ... A handful of British dominated us for so long. Why? Because they represented a higher culture of the day . . . Are we going to go back in mind and thought to that type of culture which once brought us to slavery...
...young man he came under the influence of Friedrich Naumann, long a leader in the German Liberal movement. Heuss met pretty Elly Knapp in the Naumann movement ("If Naumann had turned Buddhist," she said later, "I would have followed him into that, too"). Heuss and Elly were married by their close friend Albert Schweitzer, later to become the great humanitarian missionary and philosopher (TiME, July...