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...audience was not disappointed in the show. Pat Hurley came out with a roar, both fists swinging. His white mustache bristled, his black-ribboned pince-nez wobbled on his nose. He pounded away on his main theme: that Career Diplomats George Atcheson Jr. and John S. Service (formerly in China posts, now political advisers to General MacArthur in Tokyo) had worked against him and the avowed U.S. policy of upholding Chiang Kai-shek's Central Government. Most specific of his accusations...
...last trip, from Berlin to Flensburg to the north German moors, his shadow caught up with him. Heinrich Himmler, whom his fellow Nazis had ironically nicknamed "gentle Heinrich," had shaved his Hitlerian mustache, replaced his scholarly pince-nez with a black eye patch. He had become Herr Hitzinger. His papers were in perfect order. He loved order...
Forger Thiel, a grey-haired, dignified man who bears a striking resemblance to the late John Barrymore, was just another confidence man until he reached middle age. But in the early '30s he turned up in Manhattan's financial district wearing pince-nez and carrying a stick...
Back in Washington, at Franklin Roosevelt's regular press conference (see U.S. AT WAR), the Prime Minister sat just behind and to the right of the President. As always, he was impeccably and stiffly dressed-dark blue suit, Hooverish collar, black-ribboned pince-nez, dark tie-in contrast with the President's light green tweed coat, polka...
Martial Pressure. Ambassador Hurley donned a pince-nez to read an address in English. Third Secretary Fulton Freeman reread it in faultless Mandarin. The Generalissimo read a response in Chinese. An interpreter rendered it into faultless English. Then Pat Hurley presented his credentials. One formal hand shake was called for; the Ambassador added another for friendship's sake. As the Generalissimo lowered his hand, observers saw that Hurley's martial pressure had left it white and bloodless. But Chiang's face beamed...