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...Eisenhower next time, he replied crisply: "I think anybody could." He criticized the President's "tough talk" before the Geneva Conference and his soft words there. "I, for one," said Stevenson, "had never expected an American President to plead with a third-string Communist [meaning Soviet Defense Minister Marshal Georgy Zhukov] to please believe that the U.S. wants peace...
Wintle's War. He fought his superiors in World War II when they tried to fob him off with draft duties instead of action. "He became a little bit of a nuisance," admitted Field Marshal Sir Edmund Ironside. When France tottered, Wintle became exasperated at official in action; he called an airfield, told them he was speaking for the Air Ministry, and ordered a plane readied to fly him to Bordeaux. His plan: to get his French mili tary friends to fly the French air force out to Britain. Hauled up before an air commodore for this escapade, Wintle...
First Day. Inside the huge marble building, Eisenhower greeted the waiting Russians, shook hands warmly with his wartime friend of Berlin days, Marshal Georgy Zhukov, now Russia's Minister of Defense. As the two old soldiers exchanged queries about each other's families, Nikita Khrushchev bustled up to Ike's elbow: "I want to let you in on a Zhukov family secret," burbled Nikita. Zhukov, he said, had missed his daughter's wedding to come to Geneva and see Eisenhower again...
Soldier to Soldier. In the midst of this developing exercise in sharp words, Eisenhower turned in his chair, faced directly toward Zhukov at the far end of the Russians' table. "Marshal Zhukov is an old friend of mine," said Ike. "He knows that when we have spoken as soldier to soldier, I have never said a word that is not true." Earnestly, Eisenhower went on. "I have had enough of war," he said, and he would never have left retirement to take command of NATO if he had not believed it was an organization for peace...
Died. Constant Victor André Mornet, 85, Procureur Général of France, prosecutor in the trials of Dutch dancing-girl-turned-spy Mata Hari (1917), Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain and Pierre Laval (1945); in Nohant-Vic, France. Called by his government to prosecute Pétain, Mornet summed up in a stormy five-hour speech, concluded: "I would not be doing my duty if I did not insist on the capital penalty...