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...whole generation of Americans, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the most accessible of figures. Millions felt intimately familiar with all the details of his life: his wife Eleanor, his Scottish Terrier Fala, his cigarette holder, his stamp collection. Yet F.D.R.'s Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. described him as simultaneously evasive and frank, frivolous as well as grave, "a man of bewildering complexity." The playwright Robert Sherwood, who served for years as the President's speechwriter, admitted that he had never been able to penetrate Roosevelt's "heavily forested interior...
Kozeny was charged with 15 counts of grand larceny and two counts of criminal possession of stolen property, for allegedly stealing from investment funds managed by Manhattan-based Omega Advisors, Manhattan District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau announced...
Owing to such conflicts, armaments reduction conferences have increasingly become "a kind of ritual." Political problems are not discussed directly, yet they play an important part in any negotiations. Morgenthau did see some hope, however, in the suspended Geneva talks on the cessation of atomic testing. These discussions, he commented, are "symbols of the ability and willingness of both sides to reach limited technical agreement...
Should disarmament be effected, Morgenthau noted that national sovereignty inevitably would be impaired. In contrast with popular opinion, which feels disarmament and unlimited sovereignty can be harmonized, Morgenthau emphasized that only a supra-national agency could effectively guarantee peace...
...brief question and answer period, he doubted the farsightedness of the current American disarmament position. "To want effective inspection systems," Morgenthau said, "is to desire a utopia or not to want disarmament...