Word: maxims
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high time the President found his man. Laurence A. Steinhardt returned from Moscow to the U.S. in November, was appointed to the vitally important post of Ankara, Turkey. In Washington is the U.S.S.R.'s highest-powered diplomat, Maxim Litvinoff, onetime Foreign Commissar, onetime Delegate to the League of Nations. Joseph Stalin was waiting for something equally handsome...
...with Japanese troop convoys-as a fraction of 500 did in the Strait of Macassar. > Five anti-aircraft regiments-again, one each at the do-or-die points-would give limited, local ground protection from Jap bombers, until more guns and crews arrived. But the only safe anti-aircraft maxim is "all you can get," and the far Pacific could use all the guns the U.S. can produce, man and ship for months to come. Anti-aircraft is second only to planes on the list of emergency priorities which the Indies' Lieut. Governor General Hubertus van Mook handed Washington...
...excessive indulgence of the emotions, no doing two hours' work in one hour's time. . . . Have only a few intimates and those the best-for no man rises above the moral level of his intimates. Don't neglect the society of cultivated women." His favorite maxim: "Let us turn stumbling blocks into steppingstones...
Plain-spoken and informal, Bill Batt is the best-liked of all defense officials. Among his friends are such diverse characters as Harry Hopkins, Jesse Jones, Russian Ambassador Maxim Litvinoff, Sir Clive Baillieu of the British Purchasing Commission. Nobody calls him Mr. Batt; he is always referred to as Bill Batt-pronounced as if it were one word. When he called Jesse Jones last week, a warmhearted Texas girl in Jones's office said: "Jus' a minute, honey." All Washington thought that Bill Batt and Donald Nelson would make a good team...
More than a year ago, in Washington, President Roosevelt gave to visiting Latin American military men the words of Alexandre Dumas in The Three Musketeers as a maxim of hemisphere defense: "One for all, all for one." This week, as the top diplomats of the 21 American Republics arrived in Brazil for the war's third conference of American Foreign Ministers, that maxim was uppermost in the minds...