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...reception at the British Foreign Office, so it fell to Daisy to make the welcoming speech to their guests. In her usual freewheeling style, she spoke of home and the necessity for Germans overseas to hang together in "enemy foreign territory." Somebody told a reporter, and the remark was banner-lined in London newspapers. In Bonn Konrad Adenauer learned of it, and Daisy and Oskar were whisked back to Germany to face an outraged Chancellor...
...genius, in the 19th century," wrote Stendhal, "there is no alternative: he is either a fool or a monster." The great French novelist made this remark after meeting the one great romantic genius of Europe whose monstrous capacities were never in doubt: George Gordon, Lord Byron...
...Your remark . . . that Seeing Eye rattled tambourines "too well," raising in five years $2,000,000 more than needed (enough, you say, to provide . . . 1,300 dogs), is a body blow to the efforts of those of us who hope to put the school on a stable endowment basis. The economy of many of us who use the dogs now rests squarely on the stability of Seeing Eye. $2,000,000 is just about enough to keep it going six years-hardly a conquest of the endowment problem...
...Senate leaders worked behind Arthur Watkins' back toward a "compromise" agreement on McCarthy's censure. They made a series of telephone calls to Joe, trying to get him to 1) apologize to New Jersey's G.O.P. Senator Robert Hendrickson for the famed "without brains or guts" remark, and 2) stay quiet and keep out of trouble for awhile. The matter of apology became moot when Hendrickson said on the Senate floor that no apology would change his mind about Joe; that it was not the affront to him but the affront to the Senate that mattered...
...could: 1) guide and control the Nationalists; 2) win prestige in the country as the only effective anti-Japanese underground; 3) earn the good will of Nationalist China and the U.S. merely because he was helping to fight the Japanese. "I was a Communist," Ho Chi Minh would later remark, "but I am no longer one. I am a member of the Vietnamese family, nothing else...