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Lodge continued: ". . . Last week the Soviet representative [Vishinsky] said to me, 'You are going to lose Asia anyway.' That astounding remark made me realize how far apart his view of humanity is from mine. The U.S. is not trying to get Asia. We have never thought of Asia as some sort of object inhabited by slaves which was to be won or lost by outsiders...
...drink himself to sleep at night. After the Allied landing in Normandy and the subsequent breakout, Field Marshal Keitel, Oberkommando chief in Berlin, got von Rundstedt on the telephone and wailed, "What shall we do?" Von Rundstedt snapped, "Make peace, you fools!" Keitel ran to Hitler with the remark, and the Führer wrote von Rundstedt a "nice letter," saying that Field Marshal Günther von Kluge would take his place. Discharged, von Rundstedt nonetheless presided at the "Court of Honor," which ruthlessly drummed out of the German army those officers implicated or suspected in the unsuccessful July...
...national anthems, the wind winnowing his thin white hair, his battered grey felt hat clutched to his breast. But on other occasions, particularly when he is tired, the aged President will droop. Whenever Madame Rhee thinks that a visitor has over stayed, she will interrupt with some such remark as "Poppa, do you haff coffee or tea this afternoon?" Hearing her voice, Rhee's thousand-wrinkled face will crease into a smile. In private the President calls Madame Rhee "Momma," and in recent months he has needed all her solicitude...
...ended the longest playing career in the National Football League, begun 16 years ago with the remark "Mah feet hurt...
Sometimes an offhand remark is revealing, sometimes misleading. I hope the latter is true of a comment by our new Secretary of the Treasury, quoted in your fine article [Jan. 26] on him. You report: "When he caught Mrs. Humphrey reading Hemingway's The Old Man and The Sea, he asked, with a wink, 'Why would anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure and never amounted to anything...